Scarleth is a spelling variant of Scarlett, from an English surname tied to the rich scarlet cloth trade.
Scarleth is a variant spelling of Scarlett, a name with rich roots in English and Old French textile history. The word scarlet originally referred not to a shade of red but to a type of luxurious, finely woven cloth — from the Old French escarlate and Medieval Latin scarlatum — that was often dyed a brilliant red, making the color and the fabric synonymous over time. As a surname turned given name, Scarlett was uncommon as a first name until Margaret Mitchell's 1936 masterpiece Gone with the Wind introduced Scarlett O'Hara, one of American literature's most indelible characters: fierce, flawed, beautiful, and indomitable, her name perfectly matched to her passionate and dramatic nature.
The character of Scarlett O'Hara gave the name an enormous cultural charge — it became associated with Southern romance, willful determination, and a kind of theatrical femininity that was at once admired and complicated. For decades the name carried that Gone with the Wind shadow, but by the early 21st century it had shed most of its regional associations and entered mainstream American and British naming culture as simply a striking, vibrant choice. The actress Scarlett Johansson contributed significantly to the name's contemporary glamour, making it feel both cinematic and modern.
Scarleth, with its "th" ending, is most common in Latin American Spanish-speaking communities, where the original English name was adopted phonetically and then respelled to match Spanish orthographic conventions — the final "tt" becoming "th" in a common pattern also seen in names like Elizabethand Liseth. This Spanish-inflected spelling gives the name a pan-American character, belonging simultaneously to both Anglophone and Hispanophone worlds. For parents navigating bilingual households or simply drawn to the name's visual distinction, Scarleth offers Scarlett's fire with a cross-cultural signature.