Scarlett at a glance
- Meaning
- “scarlet, bright red”
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- English
- Pronunciation
- SKAR-lut
- Other forms
- Scarlet, Scarlette
Where the name Scarlett comes from
Scarlett is an English surname for someone who made or sold scarlet, a bright red cloth. It became a girls’ name thanks to Scarlett O’Hara, the heroine of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind. It is very popular in the US and UK in the 2020s.
Famous people named Scarlett
- Scarlett Johansson (actress)