Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: EnglishScarlett is a feminine given name. It gained popularity due to the character Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel Gone with the Wind and the film adaptation. The name has been well used in recent years for girls in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Scarlett yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Scarlett shows an unusual split: its raw count peaked back in 2017 at 7,719 births, but its best-ever rank, #14, didn't arrive until five years later, in 2022 — the count fell while the rank kept improving, meaning competing names dropped faster than Scarlett did.
First recorded in 1937, the name has a shorter data history than most names this popular, entering nearly six decades after the dataset begins.
Scarlett Johansson dominates the name's public association, joined by an unexpected second entry — Julia Louis-Dreyfus, whose middle name is Scarlett — a namesake list built almost entirely around one generation of actresses rather than spanning centuries the way Emily's does.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 7 | #3,743 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,273 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,729 |
| 1940 | 59 | #943 |
| 1941 | 77 | #829 |
| 1942 | 76 | #901 |
| 1943 | 68 | #964 |
| 1944 | 45 | #1,186 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,396 |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,287 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,435 |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,110 |
| 1949 | 53 | #1,259 |
| 1950 | 57 | #1,232 |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,522 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,705 |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,640 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,498 |
| 1955 | 96 | #1,030 |
| 1956 | 75 | #1,209 |
| 1957 | 68 | #1,285 |
| 1958 | 59 | #1,392 |
| 1959 | 49 | #1,566 |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,347 |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,021 |
| 1962 | 131 | #930 |
| 1963 | 115 | #996 |
| 1964 | 113 | #1,014 |
| 1965 | 103 | #1,031 |
| 1966 | 76 | #1,239 |
| 1967 | 78 | #1,208 |
| 1968 | 101 | #1,040 |
| 1969 | 89 | #1,188 |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,106 |
| 1971 | 92 | #1,227 |
| 1972 | 87 | #1,224 |
| 1973 | 74 | #1,359 |
| 1974 | 85 | #1,276 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,772 |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,189 |
| 1977 | 133 | #1,013 |
| 1978 | 87 | #1,364 |
| 1979 | 108 | #1,208 |
| 1980 | 122 | #1,121 |
| 1981 | 113 | #1,178 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,413 |
| 1983 | 91 | #1,328 |
| 1984 | 124 | #1,117 |
| 1985 | 112 | #1,231 |
| 1986 | 137 | #1,091 |
| 1987 | 152 | #1,022 |
| 1988 | 132 | #1,162 |
| 1989 | 138 | #1,186 |
| 1990 | 167 | #1,065 |
| 1991 | 152 | #1,158 |
| 1992 | 204 | #948 |
| 1993 | 250 | #804 |
| 1994 | 235 | #850 |
| 1995 | 272 | #751 |
| 1996 | 248 | #819 |
| 1997 | 231 | #881 |
| 1998 | 254 | #839 |
| 1999 | 245 | #878 |
| 2000 | 227 | #942 |
| 2001 | 237 | #938 |
| 2002 | 290 | #806 |
| 2003 | 327 | #759 |
| 2004 | 538 | #528 |
| 2005 | 733 | #424 |
| 2006 | 1,116 | #297 |
| 2007 | 1,583 | #218 |
| 2008 | 1,621 | #211 |
| 2009 | 1,922 | #170 |
| 2010 | 2,717 | #115 |
| 2011 | 3,564 | #80 |
| 2012 | 4,045 | #61 |
| 2013 | 5,053 | #42 |
| 2014 | 6,010 | #30 |
| 2015 | 7,143 | #22 |
| 2016 | 7,716 | #18 |
| 2017 | 7,719 | #18 |
| 2018 | 7,223 | #20 |
| 2019 | 7,084 | #21 |
| 2020 | 6,518 | #21 |
| 2021 | 6,627 | #20 |
| 2022 | 7,256 | #14 |
| 2023 | 6,311 | #17 |
| 2024 | 5,894 | #27 |
