Meaning and history
Scout comes from the English word for someone who secretly gathers information, derived from Old French escouter, "to listen." Harper Lee used it in To Kill a Mockingbird (1960).
20062006: 101 births, rank #1,978
2007: 108 births, rank #1,908
2008: 105 births, rank #1,990
2009: 105 births, rank #1,979
2010: 148 births, rank #1,513
20112011: 185 births, rank #1,280
2012: 142 births, rank #1,549
2013: 169 births, rank #1,378
2014: 209 births, rank #1,173
2015: 235 births, rank #1,104
20162016: 234 births, rank #1,098
2017: 256 births, rank #1,014
2018: 274 births, rank #964
2019: 246 births, rank #1,042
2020: 309 births, rank #871
20212021: 333 births, rank #829
2022: 425 births, rank #689
2023: 336 births, rank #822
2024: 287 births, rank #924
20252025: 254 births, rank #995
Scout moved from #925 to #997 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2022, with 425 births.