Scarlette Girl
How popular is Scarlette?
#1,173 girl name in 2025
197 baby girls were named Scarlette in the US in 2025, making it the 1173rd most popular girl name.
Scarlette popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,173 for girls (▼ 45 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 197 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-46% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #776 in 2015, #840 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2016 (418 girls) |
| Highest rank | #694 in 2016 |
| First recorded | 1940 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Scarlette counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Scarlett family of names ranked #31 for girls in 2025 (#28 the year before), with 6,522 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Scarlett | 5,644 | 87% |
| Scarlet | 581 | 9% |
| Scarlette | 197 | 3% |
| Skarlett | 61 | 1% |
| Skarlet | 25 | 0% |
| Skarlette | 14 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Scarlette is most popular
Babies named Scarlette per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Arizona: 0.4 per 1,000 (54 girls)
- Colorado: 0.2 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- Ohio: 0.2 per 1,000 (51 girls)
- Indiana: 0.2 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (172 girls)
Scarlette by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 82 | #2,531 |
| 1950s | 58 | #3,695 |
| 1960s | 142 | #2,672 |
| 1970s | 76 | #3,311 |
| 1980s | 99 | #4,853 |
| 1990s | 144 | #4,656 |
| 2000s | 592 | #1,860 |
| 2010s | 3,070 | #694 |
| 2020s | 1,543 | #840 |
Girl names about as popular as Scarlette
Questions
- Is Scarlette a boy or girl name?
- Scarlette is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Scarlette were girls.
- How popular is the name Scarlette?
- 197 baby girls were named Scarlette in the US in 2025, making it the 1173rd most popular girl name.
- When was Scarlette most popular?
- Scarlette peaked in 2016, when 418 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #694 in 2016.
- How many people are named Scarlette?
- 5,806 babies have been named Scarlette in the US since 1880. We estimate about 5,711 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Scarlette most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Scarlette was most common in Arizona, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.