Scout
#995 for girls in 2025, 254 births · #1,393 for boys in 2025, 131 births
Given to girls 71.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 425 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,129since 1992
Scout over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #995 | 254 | #1,393 | 131 |
| 2024 | #924 | 287 | #1,481 | 122 |
| 2023 | #822 | 336 | #1,337 | 142 |
| 2022 | #689 | 425 | #1,099 | 195 |
| 2021 | #829 | 333 | #1,496 | 119 |
| 2020 | #871 | 309 | #1,798 | 83 |
| 2019 | #1,042 | 246 | #1,849 | 81 |
| 2018 | #964 | 274 | #1,838 | 82 |
| 2017 | #1,014 | 256 | #1,897 | 76 |
| 2016 | #1,098 | 234 | #1,811 | 83 |
| 2015 | #1,104 | 235 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2014 | #1,173 | 209 | #2,317 | 56 |
| 2013 | #1,378 | 169 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #1,549 | 142 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2011 | #1,280 | 185 | #2,403 | 52 |
| 2010 | #1,513 | 148 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | #1,979 | 105 | #2,320 | 56 |
| 2008 | #1,990 | 105 | #2,265 | 58 |
| 2007 | #1,908 | 108 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2006 | #1,978 | 101 | #3,024 | 36 |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 | #2,701 | 40 |
| 2004 | #2,117 | 85 | #2,531 | 43 |
| 2003 | #2,368 | 70 | #2,428 | 43 |
| 2002 | #2,447 | 65 | #2,249 | 46 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | #2,386 | 41 |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #2,935 | 45 | #2,795 | 30 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 | #2,926 | 27 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 | #2,590 | 29 |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #3,536 | 31 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #5,660 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Scout! It came in at #7,067, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1993, when fewer than 17 girls a year got the name.
Where Scout is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#291 · 1 in 1,194
- Oregon#503 · 1 in 2,121
- Missouri#587 · 1 in 2,991
- Colorado#781 · 1 in 3,734
- Washington#1,075 · 1 in 6,090
Best ever in a state: #85 in Vermont, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #291 | 15 | 1 in 1,194 |
| Oregon | #503 | 7 | 1 in 2,121 |
| Missouri | #587 | 9 | 1 in 2,991 |
| Colorado | #781 | 6 | 1 in 3,734 |
| Washington | #1,075 | 5 | 1 in 6,090 |
| North Carolina | #1,179 | 6 | 1 in 7,326 |
| Ohio | #1,225 | 6 | 1 in 8,596 |
| Texas | #1,408 | 16 | 1 in 9,895 |
| California | #1,936 | 12 | 1 in 17,424 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Scout
- 71 spots since 2024 (#924 → #995)
- 124 spots since 2020 (#871 → #995)
- 109 spots since 2015 (#1,104 → #995)
- Biggest jump: 171 spots in 2020 (#1,042 → #871)
- Biggest drop: 133 spots in 2023 (#689 → #822)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2022 at #689 (425 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,859 girls born in 2022 were named Scout (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,328 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 40.9% of all girls named Scout (2,098) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 276 | #2,691 (1998) | #3,838 |
| 2000s | 811 | #1,908 (2007) | #2,323 |
| 2010s | 2,098 | #964 (2018) | #1,212 |
| 2020s | 1,944 | #689 (2022) | #855 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Scout in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 12,402 of them was named Scout, which outranked 92.1% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 27,492 of them was named Scout, which outranked 85.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,003Rodrick70
- #2,003Shia70
- #2,003Stefano70
- #2,016Scout69
- #2,016Akshaj69
- #2,016Ansel69
- #2,016Braydin69
- #2,036Adryan68
- #2,036Alston68
- #2,036Beckam68
Tied with 19 names at #2,016; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.