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Scarlet

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Scarlet is ranked 489th among girls in 2024 (622 births). Its best rank was 370th, in 2013.

Rank in 2024
#489down 25 from 2023
Births in 2024
6220.04% of girls
Peak year
2015870 births
Best rank
#370in 2013
Since 1939
17,121people given the name
Babies named Scarlet, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

17,121 girls have been named Scarlet in the United States since 1939, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 870 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 390 → 489).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 48%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Scarlet
1930s6
1940s216
1950s348
1960s609
1970s536
1980s493
1990s704
2000s2,616
2010s8,195
2020s3,398

In 2015, its biggest year

Scarlet was the 376th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Scarlet

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.