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Carlota

#3,656 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Charlotte

Carlota has been given to 2,460 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #3,656 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Carlota, 2025

1 in 80,900

Carlota over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carlota: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Charlotte

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carlota means

Carlota is a form of Charlotte.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Carlota → Charlotte → Charles. The family’s meaning is “free man”, recorded in English with the source elements karilaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Carlota is used in Cebuano, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog.

Carlota comes through Spanish Carlota.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlotte.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Carlota is pronounced /kaɾˈlota/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,460 girls were recorded with the name Carlota between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 66 in 2023; its best national rank was #871 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,404 in 2020 to #3,656 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,511 in 2015 to #3,656 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Carlota?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 80,900
41 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 39,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,656
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
56,047 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carlota 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 2025 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 56,047 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlota. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carlotas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlota was born before 1955 — so the typical Carlota is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,293
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.3% of all recorded uses (351).

Is Carlota 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
−854
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−252
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+855
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.1%
Peak was 2023 (66)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#871
1887

Spellings of Carlota

Carlota is not the most common spelling — Carla is, with 86.6% against Carlota's 1.4%.

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 Carlota is used

Across 1910–2025, Carlota was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 32,852 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 7,143
  2. 2Florida1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in —

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. Carlota has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carlota around the world

Where Carlota 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2025
    #2,752
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Carlota

People whose public names include Carlota, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Carlota in other languages

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

CarlottaCharlottCharlottaCharlotteSaroltaĈarlotoŠarlota

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

Carlota by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,656
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 252
Best rank ever
#871
1887
Peak year
2023
66 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,460
Count in 2025
41

Names similar to Carlota

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

CaridadCarlenaCarlitaCarminaCarlinaCaralynCarlinCaraleeCarlynnCarolyneCarlynCarsynCarriganCarolaCarsenCaralineCarysCarolannCarmynCarmineCarlineCarleighCarolynnCarlotta

Names with a curve like Carlota

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

MaidaCleopatraValentineDeltaOdeliaLovinaRosalineBeaBlossomRafaelaAleenEllamae

Sibling names for Carlota

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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