Scárlet
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Scárlet is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘dyer’ or ‘maker of richly coloured fabrics’, from Old French escarlate ‘scarlet cloth’. Scárlet is also written סקרלט in Hebrew.
- CLChile≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 5.6K
- VEVenezuela1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Scárlet itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
64,822 named Scarlett, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Scárlet in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Scarlet in US United States, CL Chile, VE Venezuela and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘dyer’ or ‘maker of richly coloured fabrics’, from Old French escarlate ‘scarlet cloth’.
Cited for this meaning 5
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Scárlet counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 64,822as Scarlett | 1 in 5.1K | 65K | Scarlet | 170 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 9,278as Scarlett | 1 in 1.8K | 9.3K | Scarlet | 24 |
| CL Chile | #458 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 59 | Scarlet | 64 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,248 | 1 in 94K | 2.2K | Scarlet | 76 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Scarlet | 28 |
| VE Venezuela | #733 | 2,172 | 1 in 13K | 2.2K | Scarlet | 43 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #247 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Scarlet | 33 |
64,822 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling scarlett. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Scárlet mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘dyer’ or ‘maker of richly coloured fabrics’, from Old French escarlate ‘scarlet cloth’. Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Scárlet a male or female name?
- Scárlet is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Scárlet?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 65 thousand people named Scarlett, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ecuador, Chile, Brazil and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Scárlet?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,248 people named Scárlet in 2022, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
- How common is Scárlet compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Scárlet is the 247th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sc%C3%A1rletThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Scárlet” — ranked 769th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.