Entry № 9323 · English origin

Scarlett Scarlett — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SKAR-let /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The colour red"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "the colour red".

Scarlett began as an English occupational surname for someone who sold or wore scarlet cloth — a rich red fabric that was expensive and prestigious in medieval Europe. The word ultimately derives from the Persian saqirlāt, a richly dyed wool, and travelled west through Arabic and Old French before settling in English.

Today Scarlett sits in the U.S. top 15.

The colour, the cloth, the heroine — all carried in one name.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Scarlett stands.

Scarlett 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.

Scarletts before her.

Real people
Scarlett Johansson
American actress. One of the world's highest-paid actresses; star of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and many independent films.
born 1984
In fiction
Scarlett O'Hara
Heroine of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.
1936 novel; 1939 film

Names connected to Scarlett.

The number behind Scarlett.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Scarlett reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.