Scarlet

#509 for girls in 2025, 581 births

Peak · girls
2013 · 848 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
17,709
since 1939

Scarlet over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Scarlet has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201969peak #370, 2013girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#509581
2024#490624
2023#463664
2022#432725
2021#449698
2020#446693
2019#378829
2018#407761
2017#398786
2016#381863
2015#376870
2014#390835
2013#370848
2012#398778
2011#372864
2010#414762
2009#607497
2008#650474
2007#720406
2006#844318
2005#1,105214
2004#1,344158
2003#1,242169
2002#1,218165
2001#1,600115
2000#1,744100
1999#2,22267
1998#1,69094
1997#1,86479
1996#2,12564
1995#1,77681
1994#2,10265
1993#1,61194
1992#2,48851
1991#2,27057
1990#2,37452
1989#2,14757
1988#2,36946
1987#2,15650
1986#2,42041
1985#2,10050
1984#1,83758
1983#2,13546
1982#2,45139
1981#1,88757
1980#2,09649
1979#1,79560
1978#1,86253
1977#1,63764
1976#1,96845
1975#2,02343
1974#2,02941
1973#1,80547
1972#1,45666
1971#1,56062
1970#1,68155
1969#1,44066
1968#1,70847
1967#1,49556
1966#1,51554
1965#1,46357
1964#1,57852
1963#1,20183
1962#1,23479
1961#1,31971
1960#1,69544
1959#1,79438
1958#1,76238
1957#1,75438
1956#1,53348
1955#1,33457
1954#1,73935
1953#2,43119
1952#2,92114
1951#1,96825
1950#1,55036
1949#1,76729
1948#1,85826
1947#2,14621
1946#2,22818
1945#2,14916
1944#2,28715
1943#1,55629
1942#1,66825
1941#1,75021
1940#2,02916
1939#3,7826
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First appearance
1939

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 1969

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedWVVirginia: #594 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 6,675 girlsVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: #652 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 7,967 girlsNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 girls named Scarlet, so not publishedFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Virginia#594 · 1 in 6,675
  2. North Carolina#652 · 1 in 7,967

Best ever in a state: #92 in Wyoming, 2012.

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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
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
74 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1939
  • Peaked 2013 at #370 (848 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 20 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2006–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,025
  • 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
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 46.3% of all girls named Scarlet (8,196) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s6#3,782 (1939)#3,782
1940s216#1,556 (1943)#1,944
1950s348#1,334 (1955)#1,879
1960s609#1,201 (1963)#1,465
1970s536#1,456 (1972)#1,782
1980s493#1,837 (1984)#2,160
1990s704#1,611 (1993)#2,052
2000s2,616#607 (2009)#1,107
2010s8,196#370 (2013)#388
2020s3,985#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 1969

girls
#1,440
66 births · 1 in 25,561 girls

Top girls' names in 1969

  1. #1Lisa45,028
  2. #2Michelle34,319
  3. #3Jennifer33,705
  4. #4Kimberly33,077
  5. #5Melissa23,018
  6. #6Amy21,464
  7. #7Angela21,060
  8. #8Mary19,850
  9. #9Tammy19,053
  10. #10Laura17,922
  11. #1,440Scarlet66
More about 1969

girls

1,687,016 girls got a published name in 1969; 1 in 25,561 of them was named Scarlet, which outranked 83.5% of the 8,708 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Scarlet
  1. #1,423Sherita67
  2. #1,423Terina67
  3. #1,423Trish67
  4. #1,440Scarlet66
  5. #1,440Amalia66
  6. #1,440Bettie66
  7. #1,440Carmel66
  8. #1,453Darcey65
  9. #1,453Darnell65
  10. #1,453Emilie65

Tied with 12 names at #1,440; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1968
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,462Shani#2,126 → #664
  2. ↑ 1,203Julissa#2,164 → #961
  3. ↑ 1,133Chelsea#1,834 → #701
  4. ↑ 667Latasha#1,519 → #852
  5. ↑ 549Britt#1,519 → #970
Fallers
  1. ↓ 455Tamiko#552 → #1,007
  2. ↓ 345Alesia#697 → #1,042
  3. ↓ 324Vickey#966 → #1,290
  4. ↓ 308Bettina#746 → #1,054
  5. ↓ 293Cammie#846 → #1,139

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1969 →