How popular is “Scout” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Scout” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Scout” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1992	21	0.000005467	12	9	14%
1993	26	0.000006896	16	10	23%
1994	50	0.000013449	31	19	24%
1995	66	0.000018022	44	22	33%
1996	67	0.00001837	38	29	13%
1997	65	0.000017927	40	25	23%
1998	77	0.000020934	50	27	30%
1999	75	0.000020304	45	30	20%
2000	71	0.000018784	43	28	21%
2001	86	0.000022974	45	41	5%
2002	111	0.000029693	65	46	17%
2003	113	0.000029719	70	43	24%
2004	128	0.0000335	85	43	33%
2005	124	0.000032251	84	40	35%
2006	137	0.000034629	101	36	47%
2007	153	0.000038272	108	45	41%
2008	163	0.000041469	105	58	29%
2009	161	0.000042145	105	56	30%
2010	208	0.000056281	148	60	42%
2011	237	0.000064793	185	52	56%
2012	211	0.000057692	142	69	35%
2013	236	0.000064734	169	67	43%
2014	265	0.000071498	209	56	58%
2015	302	0.000081602	235	67	56%
2016	317	0.000086407	234	83	48%
2017	332	0.000092836	256	76	54%
2018	356	0.000101254	274	82	54%
2019	327	0.000094211	246	81	50%
2020	391	0.000117046	309	82	58%
2021	452	0.000133414	333	119	47%
2022	618	0.000182671	423	195	37%
2023	478	0.000144359	336	142	41%
2024	407	0.000122277	285	122	40%

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