Scarlet

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Scarlet: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Scarlet: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #155 in 2010, and it stood at #541 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#155highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#549
1997	#449
1998	#471
1999	#498
2000	#438
2001	#335
2002	#294
2003	#291
2004	#362
2005	#187
2006	#169
2007	#187
2008	#172
2009	#157
2010	#155
2011	#171
2012	#158
2013	#180
2014	#223
2015	#214
2016	#280
2017	#333
2018	#427
2019	#485
2020	#597
2021	#674
2022	#706
2023	#774
2024	#795

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #541 among girls in Scotland, #795 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #549 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #155 among girls in England and Wales, in 2010 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #795 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Scarlet appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 4,824 births with the name.

Scarlet across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Scarlet's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#549 (1996)	#155 (2010)	#795 (2024)	29 of 29	4,824 (1996–2024)	349 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#606 (2001)	#606 (2001)	#905 (2022)	8 of 22	28 (2001–2022)	4 (2010)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#413 (2007)	#253 (2009)	#397 (2020)	9 of 14	40 (2007–2020)	7 (2009)

Scarlet by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Scarlet in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	230	4 of 10	58
2000s	2,073	10 of 10	207
2010sbusiest	2,254	10 of 10	225
2020s	267	5 of 10	53

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 225 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 165, from 105 to 270.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Scarlet appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #155 in England and Wales in 2010.

Scarlet's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#795	47	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#774	46	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#706	52	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#674	57	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#597	65	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#485	85	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#427	102	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#333	143	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#280	178	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#214	245	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#223	231	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#180	289	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#158	337	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#171	304	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#155	340	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#157	349	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#172	309	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#187	289	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#169	315	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#187	270	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#362	105	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#291	137	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#294	124	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#335	105	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#438	70	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#498	58	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#471	62	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#449	65	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#549	45	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#306	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#358	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#327	5	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#297	6	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#253	7	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#413	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #155, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 349 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Sayyid · #2636, 14y
Scarlet-Rose · #1649, 19y
Scarlett · #16, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kit · #154, 30y
Luan · #154, 29y
Polly · #156, 31y
Alayna · #153, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Hattie · #156, 29y
Kit · #154, 30y
Luan · #154, 29y
Polly · #156, 31y

Scarlet was ranked #155 in England and Wales · Girls in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Scarlet and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Scarlet without appearing here.

Scarlet moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #438 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #335 and #871.
Patricia Compare
In 2021 they stood at #674 and #640 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #706 and #963.
Alison Compare
In 2000 they stood at #438 and #422 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #335 and #570.
Ann Compare
In 1996 they stood at #549 and #539 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #449 and #672.

Moved ahead of Scarlet

Maeve Compare
In 2018 they stood at #427 and #507 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #485 and #218.
Sienna Compare
In 2003 they stood at #291 and #427 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #362 and #155.
Rita Compare
In 2023 they stood at #774 and #851 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #795 and #625.
Ida Compare
In 2017 they stood at #333 and #344 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #427 and #271.

Moved the opposite way to Scarlet

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scarlet went from #549 to #795 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scarlet went from #549 to #795 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scarlet went from #549 to #795 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scarlet went from #549 to #795 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Scarlet

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scarlet went from #549 to #795 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scarlet went from #549 to #795 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scarlet went from #549 to #795 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scarlet went from #549 to #795 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #155 in England and Wales in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Scarlet

Scarlet at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Scarlet across 3 official records

Scarlet by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Scarlet appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Scarlet

Scarlet and the names beside it

Scarlet moved ahead of

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Scarlet at a glance

Scarlet across 3 official records

Scarlet by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Scarlet appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Scarlet

Scarlet and the names beside it

Scarlet moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Scarlet

Moved the opposite way to Scarlet

Moved the same way as Scarlet