Charletta
Feminine · “Free man”
The Big Dipper was called Charles's Wain in English for a thousand years. The seven stars were a wagon, the wagon belonged to Charlemagne, and the name is in Old English glossaries, in Chaucer and in Shakespeare before the plow and the dipper displaced it.
How old is the name Charletta?
Charletta first appears in US birth records in 1921 — 104 years ago. The typical Charletta alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 1,000 people named Charletta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Charletta most popular?
Charletta peaked in 1968, reaching #1999 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
Where it comes from
From Karl to Charletta
The story of Charletta
Charlemagne kept writing tablets under his pillow and never learned to write. His secretary says he could read, spoke Latin as well as his own language, understood Greek, and worked at forming letters in bed when he had a spare moment, having started too late in life; the hand never came. He ran an empire, imported scholars from three countries, reformed the script that the whole of western Europe then used for four centuries, and could not sign his own name comfortably. The reformed script is the reason we have lower-case letters and spaces between words, which is a strange legacy for a man who found a pen difficult.
Meaning
Free man
The Germanic word behind Charles described a free man of no particular rank, which is why it was available to become a royal name at all. The endings on this version are borrowed twice over, a French diminutive with a Latin vowel after it, and they carry register rather than meaning.
How the name formed
- Karl
- Charles
- Charlotte
- Charletta
Related forms: Carlotta
Pronouncing Charletta
shar-LET-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The doubled t keeps that vowel short, which is the only piece of the spelling doing necessary work.
Nicknames for Charletta
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
- 1921
- Most girls named
- 196836 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1999reached in 1968
- Change vs 1997
- 0.0%7 in 2000, from 7
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.
Charletta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Carlotta in Italian — related form
Charlettas among us
people named Charletta are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Charletta sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Charlie is available as an everyday form and is entirely current for women.
- The meaning of the name underneath is concrete and easy to give a child.
- Three short forms in three quite different registers.
- Charlotte is far commoner and will be written by anyone taking dictation.
- The stacked endings belong to no single language and cannot be explained.
- It is dated to the middle of the twentieth century in American use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Charlettas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Charletta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Charletta in 2025?
- Charletta is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Charletta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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