Scarlett
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘dyer’ or ‘maker of richly coloured fabrics’, from Old French escarlate ‘scarlet cloth’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/skɑɹlət/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scarlett is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 12K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 391 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
64,822 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘dyer’ or ‘maker of richly coloured fabrics’, from Old French escarlate ‘scarlet cloth’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scarlett 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 | 64,822 | 1 in 5.1K | 65K | Scarlett | 391 |
| CN China | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Scarlett | 41 |
| EC Ecuador | 9,278 | 1 in 1.8K | 9.3K | — | 16 |
| CL Chile | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 59 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 610 | Scarlett | 199 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 391 | Scarlett | 142 |
64,822 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); INEC — civil registry names; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Scarlett is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Old French; made famous by Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In English, or for a seller of rich, bright fabrics, from OF escarlate scarlet cloth (LL scarlata, scarletum, of uncertain, prob¬ ably Semitic, origin). Var.: Scarlet. Cogns.: It.: Scarlata, Scarlato, Scarlat(t)i. Ger.: Scharlach. Scarso Scheinis 474
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, dyer or for a seller of rich, bright fabrics, from OF escarlate scarlet cloth (LL scarldta, scarletum, of uncertain, probably Semitic, origin).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname originating as an occupation for a dyer or seller of (scarlet) fabric.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, ) Scarlet ['skarlit]: in den i95oer-Jahren aus dem Englischen über nommener weibl. Vom. (engl, scarlet »Schar lach·, feuerrot«). Der Vorname wurde in
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfusb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Scarlett Chorvatb. 1972SKAmerican actress
- Scarlett Johanssonb. 1984USAmerican actress (born 1984)
- Elizabeth Jaggerb. 1984USnot in their usual nameEnglish model and actress; daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall
- Scarlett Alice Johnsonb. 1985GBEnglish actress
- Scarlett Pomersb. 1988USAmerican actress and singer
- Scarlett Byrneb. 1990GBBritish actress
- Scarlett Curtisb. 1995GBEnglish writer, activist
- Scarlett Alexisb. 1999USAmerican pornographic actress
- Scarlett Estevezb. 2007USAmerican actress (born 2007)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 82 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 65K | #769 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 9.3K | #224 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5.6K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 610 | #79 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 391 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 279 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 135 | #46 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2025 | 135 | #46 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 100 | #769 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2025 | 76 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 59 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 52 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Scarlett a male or female name?
- Scarlett 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.
- What does the name Scarlett mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘dyer’ or ‘maker of richly coloured fabrics’, from Old French escarlate ‘scarlet cloth’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Scarlett?
- In the etymology graph, Scarlet and Scarlette are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Scarlett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 64,822 people named Scarlett in 2020, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- In which country does Scarlett have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 65 thousand people named Scarlett, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scarlett.
- Where is Scarlett most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Scarlett is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Scarlett?
- A machine transcription gives /skɑɹlət/ (IPA) for English.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scarlettThe 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, “Scarlett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.