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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.
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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) · #56 in Canada (2025) · #69 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #71 in New Zealand (2025) · #80 in Ecuador (2025) · #93 in England & Wales (2025) · #113 in Scotland (2025) · #146 in N. Ireland (2025) · #187 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #193 in Mexico (2024) · #325 in Ireland (2025) and 9 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 · Harper · Addison · Sloane · Sawyer
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