girls:
16.5k births since 1939
#1162 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.5k births since 1939
#2014 (74th percentile)
The name Scarlet is the #2,014 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,490 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 74.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,162 (79.7% percentile) for all time with 16,490 births since 1939.
Scarlet first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (first recorded for girls in 1939).
For girls, Scarlet reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 63.6% percentile (ranked #349) with 446 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 452 births per million (ranked 62.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Scarlet ranks #418 for girls (55.9% percentile) with 377 births per million, which is 83.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Scarlet".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Scarlet", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Scarlett" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Scarlett..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Scarlet. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Scarlet is pronounced as SKAHR-luht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SKAHR-liht, at 20.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S K AA1 R L AH0 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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