# Scarlett (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/scarlett/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Scarlet |
| US babies named this | 111,739 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 52 / 111,687 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 34,757, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,564 | 80 |
| 2012 | 4,045 | 61 |
| 2013 | 5,054 | 42 |
| 2014 | 6,011 | 30 |
| 2015 | 7,143 | 22 |
| 2016 | 7,720 | 18 |
| 2017 | 7,721 | 18 |
| 2018 | 7,226 | 20 |
| 2019 | 7,086 | 21 |
| 2020 | 6,521 | 21 |
| 2021 | 6,631 | 20 |
| 2022 | 7,258 | 14 |
| 2023 | 6,318 | 17 |
| 2024 | 5,912 | 27 |
| 2025 | 5,644 | 32 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | 10,778 |
| 2012 | 6 | 12,026 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,858 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,897 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,802 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,708 |
| 2023 | 6 | 12,013 |
| 2024 | 6 | 12,123 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,768 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,987 | 25 |
| 2012 | 2,248 | 21 |
| 2013 | 2,643 | 17 |
| 2014 | 2,359 | 17 |
| 2015 | 2,285 | 16 |
| 2016 | 2,096 | 18 |
| 2017 | 1,687 | 30 |
| 2018 | 1,393 | 35 |
| 2019 | 1,101 | 44 |
| 2020 | 942 | 50 |
| 2021 | 858 | 62 |
| 2022 | 817 | 57 |
| 2023 | 634 | 72 |
| 2024 | 610 | 79 |
| 2025 | 496 | 93 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Ска́рлет
- Chinese: 斯卡利特, 斯卡莉特
- Russian: Ска́рлетт

## People named Scarlett

- Scarlett Johansson, American actress (born 1984)
- Scarlett Byrne, British actress
- Scarlett Pomers, American actress and singer
- Scarlett Mew Jensen, British diver
- Scarlett Estevez, American actress (born 2007)
- Scarlett Thomas, British writer
- Scarlett Curtis, English writer, activist
- Scarlett Chorvat, American actress
- Scarlett Strallen, British actress
- Scarlett Souren, Dutch cyclist
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
- Elizabeth Jagger, English model and actress; daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.