Scarlett ranks at #461 with 265 entries, registered female. The name carries a glamour register that pulls from two distinct cultural sources — Scarlett O'Hara from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, and the contemporary star Scarlett Johansson, whose career took off in the early 2010s. Both readings end up in the same pet-naming bucket.
Two pop-culture anchors
Older owners often come to Scarlett through the O'Hara character — willful, theatrical, Southern. Younger owners reach it through Johansson, who carries a different but adjacent glamour. The Scarlett baby name page shows a strong climb on the SSA chart from the mid-2010s onward, which is when the pet version started showing up in licensing data too. The name shares the curve with adjacent glamour picks like Ruby in the same rank tier.
Color register
Scarlett is also a color word, and a meaningful subset of owners pick it for red-coated dogs and cats. Irish Setters, Vizslas, ginger tabbies, and red Cocker Spaniels show up disproportionately. The literal-color reading runs alongside the celebrity reading without conflict.
The over-glamour counter-reading
Some owners hesitate at Scarlett because the name reads heavy — vintage Hollywood, full of trailing consonants. For a scrappy mixed-breed rescue, the formality can feel mismatched. Owners who pick it anyway tend to lean into the contrast deliberately, treating the name as a wink rather than a description. The overall trending pet names list shows similar glam-vintage picks holding mid-rank steady rather than spiking.
Owner-cohort signal
The Scarlett cohort skews toward millennial owners who are reaching for old-Hollywood glamour without irony. The pattern signals a household that wants the dog or cat to carry presence rather than blend in, and the call name is part of the staging.