Skarlet
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SKAR-let
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #5,098 for girls
Skarlet is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “scarlet red”. In 2025 it ranked 5,098th for girls in the US (25 babies).
What does Skarlet mean?
English: spelling of Skarlett, itself a spelling of Scarlett
“scarlet red”
Scarlett O'Hara, heroine of Gone with the Wind (1936), made the surname famous as a girl's name.
Meaning borrowed from Skarlett.
Is Skarlet a girl's or a boy's name?
Skarlet is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 25 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Skarlet in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 5 girls.
Skarlet in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
How popular is Skarlet in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,098th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 25 about 1 in 64,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 25 girls in the US were named Skarlet, making it the 5,098th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,663rd. Its busiest year was 2011, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Skarlet in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,594 girls in the US were given Skarlet or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #28, up from #5,098 for this spelling alone.
Skarlet in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,098 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,145 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,870 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,169 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,233 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,663 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,772 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,444 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,125 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,454 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,154 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,112 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,842 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
Names like Skarlet
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Scarlett, Harper, Willow, Poppy, River, Isla, Lily, Freya, Evie, Ivy, Lyra, Violet
Other spellings of Skarlet
Scarlett, Scarlet, Scarlette, Scarleth, Skarlett, Skarlette, Skarleth
More English names
Evelyn, Hudson, Grace, Daisy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter, Harrison, Ellie, Frankie, Grayson
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Skarlet: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/skarlet, updated 20 October 2026.