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Carletta

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Carletta has been given to 3,060 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Carletta, 2022

1 in 677,000

Carletta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carletta: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carletta means

Carletta is a given name.

The naming story behind Carletta

Wikidata records Carletta as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q104622532, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,060 girls were recorded with the name Carletta between 1914 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 98 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,075 in 1954.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Carletta?

Carletta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carletta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carletta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carlettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carletta was born before 1964 — so the typical Carletta is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,422
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 20.4% of all recorded uses (625).

Is Carletta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (98)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,075
1954

Spellings of Carletta

Carletta is not the most common spelling — Scarlett is, with 59.1% against Carletta's 1.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carletta is used

Across 1910–2025, Carletta was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 172,627 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 33,333
  2. 2Ohio1 in 50,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carletta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carletta around the world

Where Carletta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1956–1956
    #1,809
    in 1956

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Carletta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Carletta. Linked forms have their own page here.

Carlette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Carletta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,075
1954
Peak year
1970
98 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
3,060
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carletta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Carletta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carletta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Carletta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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