Carlotta

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Girl · Germanic, through French

Carlotta

Say it: kar-LOT-tah

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Meaning

A feminine diminutive of Carlo (Charles), from Germanic karl 'free man'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Fading since the 1940s

In the United States

6,263 babies given this name since 1880
At its height in 1948, about 1 in 6,700 girls
26 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

The family of the name

English	Charlotte
French	Charlotte
Spanish	Carlota

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CarolynGirlA variant of Caroline, the French feminine diminutive of Carolus (Charles), from Germanic karl 'free man'.Modern · peak 1942

Where this comes from

National birth statistics of European countries source
Royal and noble genealogies
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.