Scout
#995 for girls in 2025, 254 births · #1,393 for boys in 2025, 131 births
Given to girls 71.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 425 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,129since 1992
Scout over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #995 | 254 | #1,393 | 131 |
| 2024 | #924 | 287 | #1,481 | 122 |
| 2023 | #822 | 336 | #1,337 | 142 |
| 2022 | #689 | 425 | #1,099 | 195 |
| 2021 | #829 | 333 | #1,496 | 119 |
| 2020 | #871 | 309 | #1,798 | 83 |
| 2019 | #1,042 | 246 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | #964 | 274 | #1,838 | 82 |
| 2017 | #1,014 | 256 | #1,897 | 76 |
| 2016 | #1,098 | 234 | #1,811 | 83 |
| 2015 | #1,104 | 235 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2014 | #1,173 | 209 | #2,317 | 56 |
| 2013 | #1,378 | 169 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #1,549 | 142 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2011 | #1,280 | 185 | #2,403 | 52 |
| 2010 | #1,513 | 148 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | #1,979 | 105 | #2,320 | 56 |
| 2008 | #1,990 | 105 | #2,265 | 58 |
| 2007 | #1,908 | 108 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2006 | #1,978 | 101 | #3,024 | 36 |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 | #2,701 | 40 |
| 2004 | #2,117 | 85 | #2,531 | 43 |
| 2003 | #2,368 | 70 | #2,428 | 43 |
| 2002 | #2,447 | 65 | #2,249 | 46 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | #2,386 | 41 |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #2,935 | 45 | #2,795 | 30 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 | #2,926 | 27 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 | #2,590 | 29 |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #3,536 | 31 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #5,660 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Scout! It came in at #7,067, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1993, when fewer than 17 girls a year got the name.
See more about Scout
- 71 spots since 2024 (#924 → #995)
- 124 spots since 2020 (#871 → #995)
- 109 spots since 2015 (#1,104 → #995)
- Biggest jump: 171 spots in 2020 (#1,042 → #871)
- Biggest drop: 133 spots in 2023 (#689 → #822)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2022 at #689 (425 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,859 girls born in 2022 were named Scout (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,328 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 40.9% of all girls named Scout (2,098) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 276 | #2,691 (1998) | #3,838 |
| 2000s | 811 | #1,908 (2007) | #2,323 |
| 2010s | 2,098 | #964 (2018) | #1,212 |
| 2020s | 1,944 | #689 (2022) | #855 |
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.
Scout in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 6,744 of them was named Scout, which outranked 94.5% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,009Kaylynn257
- #1,009Rilynn257
- #1,009Violeta257
- #1,014Scout256
- #1,014Robin256
- #1,016Dalia255
- #1,016Farrah255
- #1,016Kamari255
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 24,355 of them was named Scout, which outranked 86.7% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,883Slater77
- #1,883Westen77
- #1,883Zamari77
- #1,897Scout76
- #1,897Amen76
- #1,897Caesar76
- #1,897Darion76
- #1,918Abelardo75
- #1,918Amadeus75
- #1,918Amani75
Tied with 20 names at #1,897; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.