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How popular is the name Scarlett?

Births per year, rank history and how many Scarletts are alive today.

Scarlett (female) is currently the 79th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 610 babies given the name in 2024. The name peaked in 2013, when 2,643 babies were given the name, the 17th most popular that year. It has declined since 2013; the 2024 figure is roughly 23% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 34,000 babies have been named Scarlett in England and Wales since 1996.

The Scarlett you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old. Half of all Scarletts born in England and Wales are between 10 and 18, and there are at least 35,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 11% chance that at least one of them will be called Scarlett.

How many babies are named Scarlett each year?

Where does Scarlett rank among girls' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.