Scarlett (given name)

Scarlett is a feminine name derived from an English surname with an occupational meaning, referring to a person who sold cloth of scarlet. 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. More recently, its profile has been on the rise due to the fame of the actress Scarlett Johansson. The name was the 17th most popular name given to baby girls in the England and Wales in 2013 and the 30th most popular name given to baby girls in the United States in 2014.^[1]

The name also has associations with the bright red color scarlet and, indirectly, with the Biblical scarlet woman and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, in which heroine Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter A as a sign of her adultery.

People named Scarlett

Real

• Scarlett, pseudonym of Sasha Hostyn professional StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II player
• Scarlett Johansson (born 1984), American actress
• Scarlett Keegan, American model and actress
• Scarlett Moffatt, English television personalities
• Scarlett Pomers (born 1988), American actress
• Scarlett Werner (born 1988), German tennis player

Fictional

without surname

• Scarlett (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe
• Scarlett, a gender swap of Will Scarlet, in Robin Hood: Mischief in Sherwood
• Scarlett, in the e4 TV series Skins
• Scarlett, a character in the Canadian animated show Total Drama

with surname:

• Scarlett Adams, Indonesian-English girl with strange powers from The Power of Five book series
• 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 and film Gone with the Wind
• Scarlett O'Hara St. Jones, character in the movie Steamboy
• Scarlett Valentine, in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street

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