How Many People Are Named Scarlet?
people named Scarlet are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 19,735 people in the US has this name
Based on 17,709 babies named Scarlet in Social Security records from 1939 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
870 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Either a variant of SCARLETT or else from the English word for the red colour. The word is derived (via Old French and medieval Latin) from Persian سقرلاط (saghrilat), the name of a type of cloth.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Scarlet in English. Counting Scarlet and these spellings together, about 127,798 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Scarlet in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Scarlet alive today is about 16 years old, and 87% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 17 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Scarlet first appears in the records in 1939 and was given most often in 2015, to 870 babies. In 2025, 581 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1939 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Scarlet has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #370, in 2013. In 2025 it ranked #510.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #510 |
| Best rank | #370 (2013) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #391 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Scarlet alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Scarlet were born in California than in any other state: about 2,391 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Scarlet was given 1.8 times as often in Nevada, 1.7 times in Utah and 1.4 times in Oregon.
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