How popular is “Scarlet” in the USA?

Number of people named “Scarlet” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Scarlet” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Scarlet” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Scarlet” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Scarlet” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Scarlet” by birth year

This chart shows how “Scarlet” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1939	6	0.000002723	6	100%
1940	16	0.000006948	16	100%
1941	21	0.000008619	21	100%
1942	25	0.000009151	25	100%
1943	29	0.000010274	29	100%
1944	15	0.000005576	15	100%
1945	16	0.000006031	16	100%
1946	18	0.000005633	18	100%
1947	21	0.00000583	21	100%
1948	26	0.000007531	26	100%
1949	29	0.000008322	29	100%
1950	36	0.000010276	36	100%
1951	25	0.000006787	25	100%
1952	14	0.000003686	14	100%
1953	19	0.00000493	19	100%
1954	35	0.000008792	35	100%
1955	57	0.000014196	57	100%
1956	48	0.000011642	48	100%
1957	38	0.000009043	38	100%
1958	38	0.000009192	38	100%
1959	38	0.000009139	38	100%
1960	44	0.000010593	44	100%
1961	72	0.000017382	72	100%
1962	79	0.000019577	79	100%
1963	82	0.000020716	82	100%
1964	52	0.000013376	52	100%
1965	57	0.000015722	57	100%
1966	54	0.000015537	54	100%
1967	56	0.000016495	56	100%
1968	47	0.000013912	47	100%
1969	66	0.000018991	66	100%
1970	55	0.00001525	55	100%
1971	62	0.000018063	62	100%
1972	66	0.000020999	66	100%
1973	47	0.000015579	47	100%
1974	41	0.000013487	41	100%
1975	43	0.000014241	43	100%
1976	45	0.00001483	45	100%
1977	64	0.000020148	64	100%
1978	53	0.000016699	53	100%
1979	60	0.000018034	60	100%
1980	49	0.000014226	49	100%
1981	57	0.000016477	57	100%
1982	39	0.000011118	39	100%
1983	46	0.000013282	46	100%
1984	58	0.000016625	58	100%
1985	50	0.000014009	50	100%
1986	41	0.000011526	41	100%
1987	50	0.000013867	50	100%
1988	46	0.000012449	46	100%
1989	57	0.000014827	57	100%
1990	52	0.000013156	52	100%
1991	57	0.000014633	57	100%
1992	51	0.000013277	51	100%
1993	94	0.000024932	94	100%
1994	65	0.000017484	65	100%
1995	81	0.000022118	81	100%
1996	64	0.000017548	64	100%
1997	79	0.000021789	79	100%
1998	94	0.000025556	94	100%
1999	67	0.000018138	67	100%
2000	100	0.000026456	100	100%
2001	115	0.000030721	115	100%
2002	165	0.000044138	165	100%
2003	169	0.000044447	169	100%
2004	158	0.000041351	158	100%
2005	214	0.000055659	214	100%
2006	318	0.00008038	318	100%
2007	406	0.000101559	406	100%
2008	474	0.00012059	474	100%
2009	497	0.000130099	497	100%
2010	762	0.000206183	762	100%
2011	864	0.000236208	864	100%
2012	777	0.000212448	777	100%
2013	848	0.000232605	848	100%
2014	835	0.000225287	835	100%
2015	870	0.000235077	870	100%
2016	863	0.000235233	863	100%
2017	786	0.000219787	786	100%
2018	761	0.000216445	761	100%
2019	829	0.000238841	829	100%
2020	691	0.00020685	691	100%
2021	698	0.000206024	698	100%
2022	724	0.000214003	724	100%
2023	663	0.00020023	663	100%
2024	622	0.000186871	622	100%

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