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Lotte

#10,563 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Charlotte

Lotte has been given to 94 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #10,563 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Lotte, 2025

1 in 368,000

Lotte over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lotte: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Charlotte

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lotte means

Lotte is a short form of Charlotte.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Lotte is used in Danish, Dutch, German and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charlotte.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Lotte is pronounced /ˈlɔ.tə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 94 girls were recorded with the name Lotte between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,807 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,545 in 2020 to #10,563 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 Lotte?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,563
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lotte 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lotte. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lottes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lotte was born before 2018 — so the typical Lotte is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
86
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Choose a decade

2020s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Lotte 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
−2,322
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,982
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
69.2%
Peak was 2024 (13)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,807
1920

Spellings of Lotte

Lotte is not the most common spelling — Lottie is, with 28.8% against Lotte's 0.06%.

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.

Lotte around the world

Where Lotte 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2014
    #681
    in 2014
  • France
    1908–2001
    #3,916
    in 2001
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #78
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1985–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Lotte by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,563
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,982
Best rank ever
#3,807
1920
Peak year
2024
13 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
94
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Lotte

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

LottiJetteMaitteAlettePatteMetteLotisLottaVyletteDaletteMaytteLotusLottyeYuetteDetteInetteLotoyaAidetteLianetteLotaBretteDarletteLunetteEvelette

Sibling names for Lotte

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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