Skarlet
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 25 babies a year in the US.
Skarlet by the numbers
Skarlet was given to 25 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 39 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Skarlet
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Skarlet. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Scarletscarlet cloth; bright red color783 in the US (2017)
- Skarlettbright red; a variant of Scarlett60 in the US (2017)
- Starleta small star9 in the US (2017)
- Sharletfeminine form of Charles; a form of Charlotte6 in the US (2017)
- Skarleth7 in the US (2017)
- Scarlettdeep red; a dyer of cloth7,679 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Skarlet
Names that are said the same way as Skarlet, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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