Who started Girl Scouts?

Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of Girl Scouts in the USA. Her nickname was Daisy.

Juliette Gordon Low organized the first American Girl Guide troop meeting in the USA on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. A year later, the name was changed to Girl Scouts.

Before starting the first troop in the US, Juliette Gordon Low helped organize Girl Guide troops in Scotland. However, it would be difficult to find out who started the first Girl Guide or Girl Scout troop because many girls were starting troops in various countries because they saw what the Boy Scout troops were doing.

Lord Robert Baden-Powell started the Scouting Movement in 1908 in the United Kingdom. He felt that girls should have their own organization, so Robert Baden-Powell chose the name "Girl Guides" and thought that an organization for girls should be run by women so he asked his elder sister, Agnes, to help and, in 1910, the Girl Guide movement was formally founded.