Carlota
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a female given name, equivalent to English Charlotte
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɾlota/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carlota is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Laos it is the 22nd most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 13K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 552as Carolyn
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Carlota itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #243 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 595 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
384,056 named Carolyn, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Carolyn in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NZ New Zealand, Carolin in PL Poland, SE Sweden and Carolina in LA Laos.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Charlotte
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Carlota is read(measured from records)
Carlota is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish69%
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Carlota in English.
- Portuguese9.9%
a female given name, equivalent to English Charlotte
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carlota counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #106 | 384,056as Carolyn | 1 in 866 | 384K | Carolyn | 595 |
| BR Brazil | — | 303,790as Carla | 1 in 697 | 327K | Carlota | 77 |
| PL Poland | — | 295,015as Karolina | 1 in 130 | 295K | Carolin | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | #154 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 718 | 6 | Carolyn | 288 |
| ES Spain | #357 | 87,268as Carla | 1 in 573 | 87K | Carlota | 177 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 73,994as Karolína | 1 in 145 | 74K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 21,480as Karolina | 1 in 475 | 21K | Carolin | 46 |
| LA Laos | #22 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 719 | — | Carolina | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | #101 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 552 | 10 | Carolyn | 140 |
| MD Moldova | — | 6,827as Carolina | 1 in 493 | 6.8K | — | 14 |
| PE Peru | #767 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Carlota | 40 |
| VE Venezuela | #720 | 2,164 | 1 in 13K | 2.2K | Carlota | 38 |
384,056 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Carlota is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., spanische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Mujer fuerte, valerosa
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Galician, Charlotte
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorpb. 1759SEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Sweden and Norway (1759–1818)
- Carlota Joaquina of Spainb. 1775ESQueen of Portugal from 1816 to 1826
- Queen Maria Isabel of Spainb. 1797ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain (1797-1818)
- Princess Maria Carolina, Duchess of Berryb. 1798ITnot in their usual nameTwo Sicilian Royal (1798-1870)
- Maria II of Portugalb. 1819BRnot in their usual nameQueen of Portugal (r. 1826–1828; 1834–1853)
- Charlotte van Belgiëb. 1840BEnot in their usual nameEmpress consort of Mexico (1863-1867)
- Carolina Klüftb. 1983SEnot in their usual nameSwedish heptathlete and long jumper
- Carolina Kostnerb. 1987ITnot in their usual nameItalian figure skater (born 1987)
- Karol Gb. 1991COnot in their usual nameColombian singer and songwriter
- Carolina Marínb. 1993ESnot in their usual nameSpanish badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 33K | #235 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 31K | #138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.9K | #4,641 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.8K | #3,959 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.5K | #4,391 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 2.2K | #746 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 73 | #10,511 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 46 | #2,394 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 46 | #2,394 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 41 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 35 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Carlota mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Charlotte Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Carlota have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 384 thousand people named Carolyn, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Carlota?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɾlota/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Carlota a male or female name?
- Carlota is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Carlota?
- In the etymology graph, Carolyn, Carolina and Carla are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Carlota?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 2,164 people named Carlota, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Carlota compared with other names?
- In the United States, Carlota is the 106th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carlotaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carlota” — the 106th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.