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The first name 
Scarlette

Scarlette is a female first name.

Scarlette is a common name for girls!

The name Scarlette isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Scarlette ranks 794. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Scarlette. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Scarlette.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Scarlette

What does the name 
Scarlette mean?

As a quite modern spelling of Scarlett, Scarlette is also associated with the color red. Originally, Scarlett was a surname of someone who sold luxurious woolen cloths in the Middle Ages.

Scarlette has been around... since the 1940s but remains - unlike Scarlett - a rare name.

Scarlette has 9 letters 
and begins with an S

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.

With nine letters, the name Scarlette is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.

Other names with 
S, c, a, r, l, e, t, t and e

If you take all the letters in the name Scarlette – S, c, a, r, l, e, t, t and e – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Escarlett.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Scarlette

If your name is Scarlette and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Scarlette

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Scarlette, you can simply say:

Sun

Cat

Apple

Rocket

Lion

Elephant

Tiger

Tiger

Elephant

This is how the name Scarlette is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Scarlette in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Scarlette

Scarlette

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Scarlette

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Scarlette is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
C
A
R
L
E
T
T
E

Have you ever waved the name Scarlette

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

S
C
A
R
L
E
T
T
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Scarlette sounds like this: