Scarlett is a feminine given name. It gained popularity due to the character Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel Gone with the Wind and the film adaptation. The name has been well used in recent years for girls in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
The name also has associations with the bright red color scarlet. Scarlett originated as an occupation surname, designating a person who sold scarlet, a luxury wool cloth produced in medieval Europe.
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Usage
Usage of the name has increased in the Anglosphere in recent years. It has ranked among the top 20 names given to newborn American girls since 2021 and was the 14th most popular name for girls in that country in 2022. It has also ranked among the top 100 names for newborn girls in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom in recent years. In 2022, it was the 36th most popular name given to girls in Canada.
People named Scarlett
Scarlett Archer (born 1989 or 1990), British actress
Scarlett Bordeaux (born 1991), American professional wrestler
Scarlett Bowman (born 1985), English actress
Scarlett Byrne (born 1990), English actress
Scarlett Estevez (born 2007), American actress
Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy (born 1951), Peruvian historian and university professor
Scarlett Johansson (born 1984), American actress
Scarlett Alice Johnson (born 1985), English actress
Scarlett Keegan (born 1984), American model and actress
Scarlett Miller, American engineering professor
Scarlett Moffatt (born 1990), English television personality
Scarlett Pomers (born 1988), American actress
Scarlett Werner (born 1984), German tennis player
Scarlett Westbrook (born 2004), British climate justice activist and journalist
Fictional characters
Scarlett (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe
Scarlett, a gender swap of Will Scarlet, in Robin Hood: Mischief in Sherwood
Scarlett, from the Papa Louie video games
Scarlett, in the e4 TV series Skins
Scarlett, a character in the Canadian animated show Total Drama
Scarlett Adams, Indonesian-English girl with strange powers from The Power of Five book series
Scarlett Blake, female character in the videogame Dead Nation.
Scarlett Dragna, main character of the Caraval novels by Stephanie Garber
Scarlett Fox, character from the National Wildlife Federation's Ranger Rick magazine
Scarlett the Garnet Fairy, character in the Rainbow Magic book franchise
Scarlett Kiernan, from the British soap opera Doctors
Scarlett McCain, a main character in The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne series by Jonathan Stroud
Scarlett Nicholls, from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale
Scarlett O'Connor, a character in the US TV series Nashville
Scarlett O'Hara, main character in the novel Gone with the Wind and the film of the same name