Scarlett

The word began on medieval market days, shouted between dyers hauling bolts of brilliant red cloth across cobblestones — a scarlet was both the fabric and the craftsman who produced it. The name kept its pigment. Margaret Mitchell gave it a heroine in 1936, Hollywood gave it a face, and by the 2010s American parents had granted it full first-name status; it now sits at rank 27. Two syllables, one sharp consonant at the close, and a color most names don't dare. Scarlett carries old-Hollywood glamour with a seam of grit underneath — velvet with a pocket knife in it.