Charlotta

Girls' name

Variant of Charlotte

Charlotta has been given to 966 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1967, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Charlotta, 2000

1 in 630,000

Charlotta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charlotta: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Charlotte

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charlotta means

Charlotta is a variant of Charlotte.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Charlotta is used in Swedish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɧa.ˈɭoː.ta/ for Charlotta.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlotte.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Swedish, Charlotta is pronounced /ɧa(r)²ɭota/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 966 girls were recorded with the name Charlotta between 1880 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1967; its best national rank was #848 in 1880.

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 Charlotta?

Charlotta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000: 1 in 630,000; 6 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only: 1 in 303,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 436,510 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Charlotta 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 2000 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 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charlotta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charlottas were born

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

Median birth year: 1955; About 70 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 18.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 15.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 583; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 18.0% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Charlotta 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1967 (26)
Years since peak: 58; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #848; 1880

Spellings of Charlotta

Charlotta is not the most common spelling — Charlotte is, with 95.9% against Charlotta's 0.20%.

Charlotte95.9%453,433
Carlotta1.4%6,462
Charlette0.92%4,360
Carletta0.65%3,060
Carlota0.52%2,460
Charletta0.23%1,106
Sharlotte0.23%1,094
Charlotta0.20%966

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 Charlotta is used

Across 1910–2025, Charlotta was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,796,242 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Ohio1 in —
2Texas1 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. Charlotta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charlotta around the world

Where Charlotta 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
2005–2017
#5,765
in 2017
France
1972–1972
#2,665
in 1972
South Australia
2012–2012
#871
in 2012

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

Charlotta 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: —
Best rank ever: #848; 1880
Peak year: 1967; 26 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 2000
All-time count: 966
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Charlotta

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

Sibling names for Charlotta

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

For a sister

Missy Evette Tonja Rona Nichelle Aretha Brigette Dawna

For a brother

Thad Tracey Deron Kraig Kelley Tad Darron Theron

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