Scarlett (given name)

Scarlett
Gender Any
Origin
Word/name English
Meaning English occupational surname, referring to seller of cloth of scarlet.
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Related names Scarlet
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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.

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