Scout

#995 for girls in 2025, 254 births · #1,393 for boys in 2025, 131 births
Given to girls 71.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
2022 · 425 births
Debut · girls
12 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
5,129
since 1992

Scout over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202018girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#995254#1,393131
2024#924287#1,481122
2023#822336#1,337142
2022#689425#1,099195
2021#829333#1,496119
2020#871309#1,79883
2019#1,042246#1,84981
2018#964274#1,83882
2017#1,014256#1,89776
2016#1,098234#1,81183
2015#1,104235#2,08667
2014#1,173209#2,31756
2013#1,378169#2,02167
2012#1,549142#2,01669
2011#1,280185#2,40352
2010#1,513148#2,18760
2009#1,979105#2,32056
2008#1,990105#2,26558
2007#1,908108#2,68445
2006#1,978101#3,02436
2005#2,18084#2,70140
2004#2,11785#2,53143
2003#2,36870#2,42843
2002#2,44765#2,24946
2001#3,09145#2,38641
2000#3,16943#3,07528
1999#2,93545#2,79530
1998#2,69150#2,92627
1997#2,97740#2,98125
1996#3,09338#2,59029
1995#2,73544#3,10022
1994#3,53631#3,46919
1993#5,67316#5,36010
1992#7,06712#5,6609
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First appearance
1992

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
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1992
  • Peaked 2022 at #689 (425 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2020–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,859
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 40.9% of all girls named Scout (2,098) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s276#2,691 (1998)#3,838
2000s811#1,908 (2007)#2,323
2010s2,098#964 (2018)#1,212
2020s1,944#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 2018

girls
#964
274 births · 1 in 6,208 girls
boys
#1,838
82 births · 1 in 22,148 boys

Top girls' names in 2018

  1. #1Emma18,824
  2. #2Olivia18,061
  3. #3Ava15,034
  4. #4Isabella14,575
  5. #5Sophia14,013
  6. #6Charlotte13,038
  7. #7Mia12,742
  8. #8Amelia12,405
  9. #9Harper10,646
  10. #10Evelyn10,433
  11. #964Scout274

Top boys' names in 2018

  1. #1Liam19,977
  2. #2Noah18,441
  3. #3William14,646
  4. #4James13,650
  5. #5Oliver13,500
  6. #6Benjamin13,488
  7. #7Elijah13,020
  8. #8Lucas12,665
  9. #9Mason12,526
  10. #10Logan12,447
  11. #1,838Scout82
More about 2018

girls

1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 6,208 of them was named Scout, which outranked 94.7% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Scout
  1. #960Bellamy275
  2. #960Ezra275
  3. #960Paola275
  4. #964Scout274
  5. #964Arden274
  6. #964Tinley274
  7. #964Violeta274
  8. #968Florence273
  9. #968Jenesis273
  10. #968Wendy273

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. 680Meghan#1,387#707
  2. 567Dior#1,360#793
  3. 367Palmer#1,042#675
  4. 361Adalee#1,217#856
  5. 346Oaklynn#888#542
Fallers
  1. 334Audrina#847#1,181
  2. 234Courtney#952#1,186
  3. 232Marjorie#938#1,170
  4. 228Anabelle#969#1,197
  5. 225Angelique#799#1,024

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

boys

1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 22,148 of them was named Scout, which outranked 87.0% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Scout
  1. #1,823Tegan83
  2. #1,823Wolf83
  3. #1,823Zackery83
  4. #1,838Scout82
  5. #1,838Booker82
  6. #1,838Chaz82
  7. #1,838Clive82
  8. #1,856Abe81
  9. #1,856Asaiah81
  10. #1,856Bayron81

Tied with 17 names at #1,838; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. 594Genesis#1,575#981
  2. 436Baker#1,149#713
  3. 430Saint#1,287#857
  4. 319Kairo#802#483
  5. 307Watson#1,020#713
Fallers
  1. 235Aaden#893#1,128
  2. 224Dilan#917#1,141
  3. 201Craig#980#1,181
  4. 177Mike#951#1,128
  5. 172Harper#798#970

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

See the top 100 for 2018