Scarleth
Feminine · “scarlet cloth”
Scarleth respells Scarlett, and the word named a fine cloth of any color before it named the color.
How old is the name Scarleth?
Scarleth first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Scarleth is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Scarleth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Scarleth most popular?
Scarleth peaked in 2025, reaching #2645 nationally. Today it ranks #2645, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From escarlate to Scarleth
The story of Scarleth
Escarlate named an expensive woolen cloth of any color, often dyed red, and the word slipped from the fabric to the color by the fourteenth century. Margaret Mitchell named her heroine Scarlett in 1936 and made it a given name. Scarleth is a Latin American spelling and is in current use.
Meaning
scarlet cloth; dyer
From the Old French escarlate, a rich cloth, from a Persian and Arabic word for a dyed fabric. The cloth was often red and the word became the color. The surname was occupational for a dyer or seller. The -eth respelling is Latin American.
How the name formed
- escarlate
- scarlet
- Scarlett
- Scarleth
Related forms: Scarlett · Scarleth
Pronouncing Scarleth
SKAR-let
Two syllables, stress on the first. The final h is silent in this spelling.
Nicknames for Scarleth
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 202565 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2645reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +18.2%65 in 2025, from 55
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Scarleth in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Scarlett in English — spelling variant
- Scarleth in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Scarleths among us
people named Scarleth are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was named Scarleth
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Scarleth
- #2645
- Scarleth on the 2025 chart
- #888
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Scarleth went to 65 girls in 2025, but Skarleth is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 72, which makes it the 888th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,757 places above the chart.
- Scarleth65
- Skarleth7
About 1 girl in 22,323 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 24,727 for Scarleth itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Desha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Scarleth's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Desha climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Desha's path sketches the road Scarleth is walking now.
Scarleth sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Scarleth is headed
Scarleth looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 25% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Scarleth beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Scarleth in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That scarlet named a cloth before it named a color is a first-rate etymology.
- Letty is available as a short form with a real record.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Scarlett is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- The silent h invites constant correction.
- The Scar clipping is unfortunate.
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Frequently asked
- How many Scarleths are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Scarleth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Scarleth?
- Scarleth is the most-used spelling in US records — 65 of the 72 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Skarleth.
- How popular is the name Scarleth in 2025?
- Scarleth ranks #2645 among US girl names in 2025, with 65 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Scarleth?
- About 1 in every 24,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Scarleth — 65 in all.
- Will my child share the name Scarleth with classmates?
- Scarleth will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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