Scarlette
Scarlette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 214 births. Its best rank was 696th, in 2016.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2140.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2016418 births
- Best rank
- #696in 2016
- Since 1940
- 5,606people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,606 girls have been named Scarlette in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 418 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 55%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2016, its biggest year
Scarlette was the 696th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Scarlette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rylynnpeak 2016
- Evalynnpeak 2015
- Charleepeak 2019
- Analeahpeak 2016
- Hadleypeak 2014
- Aubriellepeak 2017
- Arabellapeak 2014
- Brayleighpeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.