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Scarlet vs Scarleth

American parents have registered 17,709 Scarlets since 1880, against 761 Scarleths. Scarlet is still ahead, with 581 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Scarlet against Scarleth, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Scarlet Scarleth

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Scarlet has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1939 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Scarlet had 581 and Scarleth had 65.

Side by side

  Scarlet Scarleth
Total US births 17,709761
Most in one year 87065
Babies in 2025 58165
Estimated living today 17,000760
Median age today 119
Peak year 20152025
Best rank 376th girls2,645th girls
Rank in 2025 509th2,645th
First recorded 19391995
Girls / boys 17,709 / 0761 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Scarlets alive today are over 11; half the Scarleths are over 9. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Scarlet and Scarleth.