Scarlett (given name)
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. The word is thought to derive from the Arabic siklāt, referring to silks dyed with kermes.
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 Bordeaux, American professional wrestler
- Scarlett Byrne, English actress
- Scarlett Estevez, American actress
- Scarlett Johansson, American actress
- Scarlett Alice Johnson, English actress
- Scarlett Keegan, American model and actress
- Scarlett Miller, American engineering professor
- Scarlett Moffatt, English television personality
- Scarlett Pomers, American actress
- Scarlett Werner, German tennis player
- Scarlett Westbrook, 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 Nicholls, from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale
- Scarlett O'Connor, a character in the US TV series Nashville
- Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, Peruvian historian and university professor
- Scarlett O'Hara, main character in the novel and film Gone with the Wind
- Scarlett O'Hara St. Jones, character in the movie Steamboy
- Scarlet Porter, a character in 17 Again, played by Leslie Mann
- Scarlett Valentine, in the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street''