girls:
5.4k births since 1940
#2283 (60th percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1940
#3720 (52nd percentile)
The name Scarlette is the #3,720 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,389 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 51.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,283 (60.1% percentile) for all time with 5,389 births since 1940.
Scarlette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (first recorded for girls in 1940). Birth data for Scarlette is available in 77 out of the 84 years between 1940 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Scarlette reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 40.8% percentile (ranked #567) with 216 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 216 births per million (ranked 40.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Scarlette ranks #715 for girls (24.5% percentile) with 137 births per million, which is 63.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Scarlette".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Scarlette is pronounced as SKAHR-leht, which has 2 syllables.
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