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Carlotta

#4,085 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Charlotte

Carlotta has been given to 6,462 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,085 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1948, with 255 recorded.

Babies named Carlotta, 2025

1 in 94,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carlotta: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Charlotte

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carlotta means

Carlotta is a form of Charlotte.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Carlotta is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlotte.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Carlotta is pronounced /karˈlɔt.ta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,462 girls were recorded with the name Carlotta between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 255 in 1948; its best national rank was #514 in 1948.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,782 in 2020 to #4,085 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,037 in 2015 to #4,085 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 Carlotta?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 45,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,085
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carlotta 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlotta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carlottas were born

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

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,034
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (1,286).

Is Carlotta 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
−847
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+697
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,952
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.7%
Peak was 1948 (255)
Years since peak
77
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#514
1948

Spellings of Carlotta

Carlotta is not the most common spelling — Charlotte is, with 96.0% against Carlotta'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 Carlotta is used

Across 1910–2025, Carlotta was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 56,948 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 16,667
  2. 2Illinois1 in 25,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 33,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in 33,333
  5. 5Missouri1 in 33,333
  6. 6Ohio1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 50,000
  8. 8California1 in 50,000

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

Carlotta around the world

Where Carlotta 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
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    1926–2025
    #4,806
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1960–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Carlotta

People whose public names include Carlotta, 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.

Carlotta in other languages

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

CarlotaCharlottaCharlotteSaroltaĈarlotoŠarlota

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

Carlotta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,085
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 697
Best rank ever
#514
1948
Peak year
1948
255 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,462
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Carlotta

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

CarlettaCarolynnCarleighCarolannCarolyneCarmelitaCarmellaCarnettaCarleneCarmelCarriganLaurettaCarlotaCarsonCaralineCarsynCarlynViolettaCarterCarolinaConcettaJuliettaCarleenCaridad

Names with a curve like Carlotta

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

AletaCherryCarleenRonnieRositaCharleenRoseanneOraliaMarileeMaritaMariannLarry

Sibling names for Carlotta

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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