Scarlet
#509 for girls in 2025, 581 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 848 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 17,709since 1939
Scarlet over time
Rank among girls' names. Scarlet has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #509 | 581 |
| 2024 | #490 | 624 |
| 2023 | #463 | 664 |
| 2022 | #432 | 725 |
| 2021 | #449 | 698 |
| 2020 | #446 | 693 |
| 2019 | #378 | 829 |
| 2018 | #407 | 761 |
| 2017 | #398 | 786 |
| 2016 | #381 | 863 |
| 2015 | #376 | 870 |
| 2014 | #390 | 835 |
| 2013 | #370 | 848 |
| 2012 | #398 | 778 |
| 2011 | #372 | 864 |
| 2010 | #414 | 762 |
| 2009 | #607 | 497 |
| 2008 | #650 | 474 |
| 2007 | #720 | 406 |
| 2006 | #844 | 318 |
| 2005 | #1,105 | 214 |
| 2004 | #1,344 | 158 |
| 2003 | #1,242 | 169 |
| 2002 | #1,218 | 165 |
| 2001 | #1,600 | 115 |
| 2000 | #1,744 | 100 |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 |
| 1998 | #1,690 | 94 |
| 1997 | #1,864 | 79 |
| 1996 | #2,125 | 64 |
| 1995 | #1,776 | 81 |
| 1994 | #2,102 | 65 |
| 1993 | #1,611 | 94 |
| 1992 | #2,488 | 51 |
| 1991 | #2,270 | 57 |
| 1990 | #2,374 | 52 |
| 1989 | #2,147 | 57 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 |
| 1987 | #2,156 | 50 |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 |
| 1985 | #2,100 | 50 |
| 1984 | #1,837 | 58 |
| 1983 | #2,135 | 46 |
| 1982 | #2,451 | 39 |
| 1981 | #1,887 | 57 |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 |
| 1979 | #1,795 | 60 |
| 1978 | #1,862 | 53 |
| 1977 | #1,637 | 64 |
| 1976 | #1,968 | 45 |
| 1975 | #2,023 | 43 |
| 1974 | #2,029 | 41 |
| 1973 | #1,805 | 47 |
| 1972 | #1,456 | 66 |
| 1971 | #1,560 | 62 |
| 1970 | #1,681 | 55 |
| 1969 | #1,440 | 66 |
| 1968 | #1,708 | 47 |
| 1967 | #1,495 | 56 |
| 1966 | #1,515 | 54 |
| 1965 | #1,463 | 57 |
| 1964 | #1,578 | 52 |
| 1963 | #1,201 | 83 |
| 1962 | #1,234 | 79 |
| 1961 | #1,319 | 71 |
| 1960 | #1,695 | 44 |
| 1959 | #1,794 | 38 |
| 1958 | #1,762 | 38 |
| 1957 | #1,754 | 38 |
| 1956 | #1,533 | 48 |
| 1955 | #1,334 | 57 |
| 1954 | #1,739 | 35 |
| 1953 | #2,431 | 19 |
| 1952 | #2,921 | 14 |
| 1951 | #1,968 | 25 |
| 1950 | #1,550 | 36 |
| 1949 | #1,767 | 29 |
| 1948 | #1,858 | 26 |
| 1947 | #2,146 | 21 |
| 1946 | #2,228 | 18 |
| 1945 | #2,149 | 16 |
| 1944 | #2,287 | 15 |
| 1943 | #1,556 | 29 |
| 1942 | #1,668 | 25 |
| 1941 | #1,750 | 21 |
| 1940 | #2,029 | 16 |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Scarlet! It came in at #3,782, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1939, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Scarlet is popular in 1967
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#437 · 1 in 3,688
- California#1,660 · 1 in 30,589
Best ever in a state: #92 in Wyoming, 2012.
Show every state
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| Georgia | #437 | 10 | 1 in 3,688 |
| California | #1,660 | 5 | 1 in 30,589 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Scarlet
- 19 spots since 2024 (#490 → #509)
- 63 spots since 2020 (#446 → #509)
- 133 spots since 2015 (#376 → #509)
- Biggest jump: 261 spots in 2006 (#1,105 → #844)
- Biggest drop: 68 spots in 2020 (#378 → #446)
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 2013 at #370 (848 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,025 girls born in 2019 were named Scarlet (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,766 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #370 in 2013, was only 1 in 2,069 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.3% of all girls named Scarlet (8,196) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1930s | 6 | #3,782 (1939) | #3,782 |
| 1940s | 216 | #1,556 (1943) | #1,944 |
| 1950s | 348 | #1,334 (1955) | #1,879 |
| 1960s | 609 | #1,201 (1963) | #1,465 |
| 1970s | 536 | #1,456 (1972) | #1,782 |
| 1980s | 493 | #1,837 (1984) | #2,160 |
| 1990s | 704 | #1,611 (1993) | #2,052 |
| 2000s | 2,616 | #607 (2009) | #1,107 |
| 2010s | 8,196 | #370 (2013) | #388 |
| 2020s | 3,985 | #432 (2022) | #465 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Scarlet in 1967
Top girls' names in 1967
More about 1967
girls
1,651,025 girls got a published name in 1967; 1 in 29,483 of them was named Scarlet, which outranked 81.0% of the 7,852 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,478Susann57
- #1,478Tamar57
- #1,478Willette57
- #1,495Scarlet56
- #1,495Alanna56
- #1,495Alysia56
- #1,495Arnetta56
- #1,506Alycia55
- #1,506Annabelle55
- #1,506Bette55
Tied with 10 names at #1,495; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.