Nicknames for Scarlett
34 ideas for Scarlett — the short forms people actually use, plus cute, funny and gamer versions. Copy any of them in one click.
- Scar the everyday clip, sharper than the name
- Letty the back clip, warm and old-fashioned
- Lettie the softer spelling
- Scarlie the affectionate extension
- Scars the friend version
- Lett the tightest back clip
- Etta lifted from the middle, a name itself
- Red what the name means, used as a nickname
- Scarlet the one-t spelling
- Scarlette the French-looking spelling
- Escarlata the Spanish form of the colour
- Scarlatta the Italian-flavoured version
- Skarlet the k respelling, used online
- Scar-Bear the usual affectionate pattern
- Scarlett-Rose the standard compound
- Scarlett-Mae the Southern double name
- Letty-Lou the rhyming family extension
- Scarly the softened everyday form
- S initial only, in group chats
- Lion King the joke that follows Scar, forever
- OHara the Gone With The Wind reference
- Crimson the elevated version of Red
- Scarlett Fever the pun, delivered once
- Letty-Bug family pet name
- Carlie the softened middle, used in families
- Scary Scarlett with the ending people add when they like you.
- Scarie Scarlett with the ending people add when they like you.
- Scaro Scarlett with the ending people add when they like you.
- Sca-sca The opening sound of Scarlett, doubled.
- Sweet Scarlett Shares the "S" sound with Scarlett.
- Sunny Scarlett Shares the "S" sound with Scarlett.
- Sharp Scarlett Shares the "S" sound with Scarlett.
- Scaru Scarlett with the ending people add when they like you.
- Swift Scarlett Shares the "S" sound with Scarlett.
About the name Scarlett.
Margaret Mitchell settled on the name late in the drafting of Gone with the Wind, and the 1939 film fixed it in American memory. The surname behind it is occupational, from an Old French word for a costly cloth that was often, though not always, dyed red. A small number of American girls were named after the film in the 1940s and 1950s, and then the name went quiet for forty years. What brought it back was a second actress rather than a fictional one. From the mid 2000s the numbers climb steeply, and Britain took to it even faster than the United States did.
Long, dramatic and unmistakably deliberate; nobody arrives at this name by accident. The double t at the end gives it a hard stop that keeps the whole thing from sounding merely decorative. Scar is what friends use, and it is either brilliant or unfortunate depending on your taste. Letty is the softer route.
Most popular around 2020. Based on US birth records.
- Origin
- Old French
- Meaning
- seller of scarlet cloth
- Syllables
- Scar·lett
- Used as
- a girls’ name
Famous people called Scarlett.
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Scarlett Johansson
American actress, Marvel films
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Scarlett Moffatt
British television presenter
Questions about the name Scarlett
One t or two at the end? +
Two is standard for the name and one is standard for the colour. Mitchell's character uses the double t, and so does the actress most people now associate with it. The single-t spelling exists but is a small minority and often gets read as a typo.
What does Scarlett mean? +
It began as a job title for a dyer or a seller of scarlet, an expensive woollen cloth. The cloth gave its name to the colour rather than the other way round, so the red association arrived second, which is the reverse of what most people assume.
What nicknames go with it? +
Scar is the common one among friends, blunt and slightly punk. Letty and Lettie come off the back half and sound far gentler. Scarlie appears in families. There is no long tradition here, since the name is too recently popular to have built one.
Is Scarlett a new name? +
As a first name, effectively yes. Before the 1930s it was a surname and nothing else. Its brief mid-century use came straight from the novel, and the real popularity is a twenty-first century development, which puts almost every Scarlett under twenty-five.