Scarlett

4,611 people in the United States were counted with the surname Scarlett in the 2020 census, making it the 7,023rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 64,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,611
Rank: 7,023rd
How common: 1 in 64,800
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Scarlett described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 57.2%
Black, not Hispanic 33.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Scarlett

Debrah Scarlett (born 1993)Norwegian-Swiss singer
Dane Scarlett (born 2004)English footballer
Fred Scarlett (born 1975)British rower
Scarlett (born 1993)Canadian esports player

People named Scarlett with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Scarlett

Also a first name

Scarlett has been given to 111,739 American babies as a first name since 1937, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.