Carlotta
Feminine · “free man”
Carlotta is the Italian form of Charlotte, and both descend from a Germanic word for a free man — karl, which also gave the Slavic word for a king.
How old is the name Carlotta?
Carlotta was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Carlotta alive today was born around 1955, making them about 70 years old. About 4,600 people named Carlotta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Carlotta most popular?
Carlotta peaked in 1948, reaching #515 nationally. Today it ranks #4067, 3,552 places below that high. See the whole 1948 chart.
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Where it comes from
From karl to Carlotta
The story of Carlotta
Karl meant an ordinary free man, and Charlemagne's fame turned it into the word for a monarch across the Slavic world — one of the clearest cases of a person's name becoming a common noun. French made Charles and its feminine Charlotte, and Italian made Carlo and Carlotta. It reaches American records in real numbers with Italian emigration and peaked around 1900.
Meaning
free man
From Germanic karl, a free man or a common man as against a noble; Charlemagne's name spread it so widely that Slavic languages took karl as their word for a king, which is where Polish król and Russian korol come from.
How the name formed
- karl
- Charlotte
- Carlotta
Related forms: Carlotta · Charlotte · Carlota
Pronouncing Carlotta
kar-LOT-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Italian.
Nicknames for Carlotta
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1947188 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #515reached in 1948
- Change vs 2022
- −22.2%35 in 2025, from 45
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Carlotta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Carlotta in Italian — same name
- Charlotte in French — same name
- Carlota in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, California.
Carlottas among us
people named Carlotta are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 45,922 born in 2025 was named Carlotta
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Carlotta
- #4067
- Carlotta on the 2025 chart
- #884
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Carlotta went to 35 girls in 2025, but Carlota is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 76, which makes it the 884th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,183 places above the chart.
- Carlota41
- Carlotta35
About 1 girl in 21,148 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 45,922 for Carlotta itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rubie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Carlotta's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rubie climbed just as high around 1906, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rubie's path sketches the road Carlotta is walking now.
Carlotta sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Carlotta is headed
Carlotta looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 31% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Carlotta beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Carlotta in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Germanic meaning with a genuinely remarkable afterlife in Slavic.
- Carla and Lotta are both complete names in their own right.
- Every letter is said, so Italian and Spanish speakers read it at once.
- Charlotte is far more common in America and looks quite different.
- It reads as of an older generation to Italian speakers.
- Eight letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
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Frequently asked
- How many Carlottas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,600 people named Carlotta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Carlotta?
- Carlotta is one of 2 recorded spellings. Carlota is the more common one — 41 births in 2025 against 35 for Carlotta.
- How popular is the name Carlotta in 2025?
- Carlotta ranks #4067 among US girl names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Carlotta?
- About 1 in every 45,922 US girls born in 2025 was named Carlotta — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Carlotta with classmates?
- Carlotta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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