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Lotta

Girls' name

Short form of Charlotta

Lotta has been given to 499 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 1883, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Lotta, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lotta: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Charlotta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lotta means

Lotta is a short form of Charlotta.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lotta is used in Swedish and Finnish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlot.tɑ/ for Lotta.

Origin, language, and formation

Lotta is used in Faroese, Finnish and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlotta and Liselotte.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Lotta is pronounced /ˈlotːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 499 girls were recorded with the name Lotta between 1880 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1883; its best national rank was #370 in 1883.

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 Lotta?

Lotta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lotta 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lotta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lottas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lotta was born before 1898 — so the typical Lotta is around 127 today.

Median birth year
1898
About 127 years old
Biggest decade
1880s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1880s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Lotta 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 1883 (25)
Years since peak
142
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#370
1883

Spellings of Lotta

Lotta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 31.1% against Lotta's 0.09%.

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 Lotta is used

Across 1910–2025, Lotta was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Lotta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lotta around the world

Where Lotta 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
    2004–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • France
    2012–2022
    #6,080
    in 2022
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #159
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Lotta 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
#370
1883
Peak year
1883
25 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
499
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lotta

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

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Sibling names for Lotta

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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