Scarlett?

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Foolishly said in jest to DH (I do kind of like it too)

Now he's hooked on the name and I'm not sure.

What do you think?

Too noisy?

Too brash?

Or a lovely big personality name?

I like it.
It doesn't have to be too brash and noisy.
Does it go with your surname?

I'm not that keen - I've never been able to get past the fact it has Scar in it, sorry.

DD1 is Scarlett and she is a quiet gentle girl :)

Restrain - good to hear. I always think of Scarlett O'Hara (who I do like) and she was a bit fierce wasn't she, in Gone With The Wind! Do you shorten it to anything?

RC - it does go with our surname...

No she is Scarlett or Monkeymoomoo - lol!

Like the Monkeymoomoo...now there's a thought

Apologies to parents of Scarletts out ther as it is a pretty name, but it doesn't make me think of Scarlett O'Hara so much as the lion called Scar in the Lion King ... Scar is not a very pretty nickname!

Brash, sorry.

I wondered if 'Letti' could become a nickname?

I know lots of people like this but I can't stand this name, sorry. I always associate it with the phrase "scarlet woman" which is hardly complimentary!

I love the name Scarlett, and had always planned to use for my daughter, however it's become a bit popular for my liking now...

It would be a nice name if it wasn't quite so common (and by common, I mean prevalent). It's like Ava - lovely name if she was the only one around, but loses something when everyone else has it, too.

Just my opinion.

Will date too, I think, due to its popularity.

I think its lovely but if your not keen maybe use it as a middle if Dh really loves it? What else do you like?

P.s. I think Charlotte has the same ring to it, do you like?

I agree with AllieW sorry

Besides which, Scarlett O'Hara was actually called Kate, if I remember correctly. Scarlett was her mother's maiden name.

She was Katie Scarlett O'Hara. Her mother's maiden name was Robillard.

Didn't know it was so popular (common)...

Knew it was in about the top 100, but haven't really looked too far into that.

DD is a Scarlett - nearly 12. Like restrainedrabbit's DD, she is a quiet and gentle but also quite independent. I was attracted to the "feisty" nature of the name, but in fact she's more calmly assertive, which is probably better!

12 years ago when we picked it, it was quite out there. The rellies were really shocked at the time. It's used more now, but hardly ubiquitous.

We've never shortened it, although I've noticed DS does tend to say "Scart" sometimes.

If DS had been a girl he would have been scarlett. Love it. Can shorten it to letti.

I quite like Scarlett although a part of me thinks I shouldn't. I know that doesn't make much sense.

I think it can suit different characters too.

There is a lovely lovely picture book called Sacrlett(e?) Bean which I read to the dds when they were little.

It does get misspelled as Scarlet quite often. Also occasionally Charlotte

Scarlett is a lovely name. I know two from school but obviously they aren't little children! We call one Scarly and the other Lettie.

I dislike it, mainly because of the Scar part of the name - it sounds like a little scar, a scarlett.