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Girl's name · #32 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave
Its best rank, #14, came in 2022 — Scarlett has settled just below that height, at #32 in 2025, with roughly 112,000 girls since 1937.
Margaret Mitchell gave the heroine of Gone with the Wind (1936) the name Scarlett — the first Scarletts appear in US records the next year, and use jumped after the 1939 film. The name then spent decades in quiet use before rising sharply in the 2000s. Musician Jack White and model Karen Elson chose it for their daughter, Scarlett Teresa, born in 2006. Model Molly Sims and producer Scott Stuber chose it for their daughter, Scarlett May, born in 2015.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#46 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #53 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #69 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #71 in New Zealand (2025) · #80 in Ecuador (2025) · #93 in England & Wales (2025) · #115 in Scotland (2025) · #153 in N. Ireland (2025) · #187 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #226 in Mexico (2024) · #351 in Ireland (2025) · #569 in Poland (2025) and 6 more.
Among 126 notable people named Scarlett:
Entertainers appear 3.33× more often than among typical names — e.g. Scarlett Johansson, American actress (born 1984).
Similar names: Piper · Skylar · Dahlia · Willow · Sage · Harper
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