Baby name

Scarlett

Girl

Origin of the name

Scarlett is an English surname, made famous as a first name by Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine of Gone with the Wind.

Rising name

2017 was its best year: 7,721 births, or 1 baby in 463. The momentum is recent: births are up 2% over the last five years, compared with the decade before. Its rank in 2025: No. 32. 52% of all babies named Scarlett since 1880 were born in the 2010s.

111,687births since 1880

2010sgeneration

No. 18rank at its peak, in 2017

Where babies named Scarlett are born

2017

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The darker the blue, the more common Scarlett is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Scarlett is most common in Nevada (2.7 times), Arizona (1.8) and Alaska (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Scarlet 17,709
Scarlette 5,806
Skarlett 1,095

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