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Scarlette

#1,180 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Scarlett

Scarlette has been given to 5,806 babies in the U.S. since 1940. In 2025 it ranked #1,180 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 418 recorded.

Babies named Scarlette, 2025

1 in 16,800

Scarlette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Scarlette: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Scarlett

surname transfer

What Scarlette means

Scarlette is a variant of Scarlett.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Scarlette → Scarlett. The family’s meaning is “scarlet-cloth maker or seller”, recorded in the naming reference for Scarlett.

Origin, language, and formation

Scarlette is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Scarlette is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Scarlett.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,806 girls were recorded with the name Scarlette between 1940 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 418 in 2016; its best national rank was #696 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #844 in 2020 to #1,180 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #776 in 2015 to #1,180 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Scarlette?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,800
197 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,160
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,180
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,666 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Scarlette sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,666 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Scarlette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Scarlettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Scarlette was born before 2016 — so the typical Scarlette is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,724
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Choose a decade

2010s — 52.9% of all recorded uses (3,070).

Is Scarlette rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−46
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−336
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−404
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.1%
Peak was 2016 (418)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#696
2016

Spellings of Scarlette

Scarlette is not the most common spelling — Scarlett is, with 71.5% against Scarlette's 3.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Scarlette is used

Across 2016–2025, Scarlette was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 2,222 girls, against 1 in 5,547 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

245 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 2,222
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 3,448
  3. 3California1 in 4,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 4,167
  5. 5Michigan1 in 4,167
  6. 6Missouri1 in 4,167
  7. 7Colorado1 in 4,348
  8. 8Iowa1 in 4,348

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Scarlette is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 47% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Scarlette around the world

Where Scarlette ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1946–2025
    #6,664
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2012
    #338
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Scarlette by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,180
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 336
Best rank ever
#696
2016
Peak year
2016
418 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,806
Count in 2025
197

Names similar to Scarlette

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CharletteHarrietteBrigetteMargaretteGeorgetteVioletteLissetteColletteNicoletteScarlotteClaudetteBrigitteCharoletteScarletBridgetteScarlethAntonetteJosetteSharlotteLynnetteLinetteArletteEllietteLisette

Names with a curve like Scarlette

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Scarlette, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AubrielleElliotEmmelineJemmaEllisonHarmoniHadleighLivHadleeTinsleyAriadneKairi

Sibling names for Scarlette

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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