Entry № 9322 · English origin

Scarlet Scarlet — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SKAR-let /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Brilliant red (The Scarlet Letter + Captain Scarlet)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "brilliant red (the scarlet letter + captain scarlet)".

Scarlet is the single-T spelling — from the Old French escarlate (the brilliant red dye and the cloth dyed with it), itself ultimately from a Persian word. The 1839 Crayola crayon "Scarlet" has been one of the longest-continuous crayon colors.

Brilliant red (The Scarlet Letter + Captain Scarlet) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Scarlet
Transliteration
Scarlet
Pronunciation
/ ˈskɑːr.lət /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Scarlet stands.

Scarlet does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Scarlets before her.

Real people
Scarlet Snow Belo
Filipino child celebrity.
born 2015
In fiction
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne's novel.
1850
Scarlet Pimpernel
Orczy's novel.
1905
Miss Scarlet
Clue suspect.
1949

Names connected to Scarlet.

The number behind Scarlet.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Scarlet reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.