Scout

maleStatistical record

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

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

Scout: Recorded since 1997, it reached #1,411 in 2017, and it stood at #1,672 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#1411highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
2000	#2416
2001	#3262
2002	#4137
2003	#2727
2004	#2278
2005	#3970
2006	#2137
2007	#2233
2008	#3860
2009	#1752
2010	#3533
2011	#2636
2012	#3285
2013	#1956
2014	#2464
2015	#1961
2016	#1472
2017	#1411
2018	#1788
2019	#1703
2020	#1556
2021	#1692
2022	#1621
2023	#1469
2024	#1672

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 26 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #1411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1672 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Scout appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 305 births with the name.

Scout across 2 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.

Scout'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	#3824 (1997)	#1411 (2017)	#1672 (2024)	26 of 28	305 (1997–2024)	23 (2017)
England and Wales · Boys	#4702 (2019)	#3112 (2023)	#3688 (2024)	6 of 6	27 (2019–2024)	6 (2023)

Scout 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 Scout in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	71	10 of 10	7
2010s	138	10 of 10	14
2020sbusiest	93	5 of 10	19

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 19 births a year.

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

Scout appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1411 in England and Wales in 2017.

Scout'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	#1672	18	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1469	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1621	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1692	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1703	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1788	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1411	23	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1472	22	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1956	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,411, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 23 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Mukhtar · #1411, 25y
Naiya · #1411, 24y
Ruqaya · #1411, 24y
Saliha · #1411, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Mukhtar · #1411, 25y
Ruqaya · #1411, 24y
Saliha · #1411, 29y
Hassaan · #1410, 26y

Scout 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 Scout without appearing here.

Scout moved ahead of

Ellinor Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1752 and #5556.
Cecilie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2636 and #2636 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1956 and #5742.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3285 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1956 and #5742.
Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3285 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2464 and #5691.

Moved ahead of Scout

Frida Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2416 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #3409.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1411 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1788 and #1436.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1703 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1556 and #1313.
Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1692 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1621 and #1452.

Moved the opposite way to Scout

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scout went from #3824 to #1672 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scout went from #3824 to #1672 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scout went from #3824 to #1672 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scout went from #3824 to #1672 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Scout

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scout went from #3824 to #1672 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scout went from #3824 to #1672 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scout went from #3824 to #1672 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Scout went from #3824 to #1672 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1411 in England and Wales in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Scout

Scout at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Scout across 2 official records

Scout by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Scout 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

Scout and the names beside it

Scout moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Scout

Moved the opposite way to Scout

Moved the same way as Scout

Scout at a glance

Scout across 2 official records

Scout by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Scout appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Scout and the names beside it

Scout moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Scout

Moved the opposite way to Scout

Moved the same way as Scout