Carlito
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A Philippine tarsier, Carlito syrichta
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑɹˈɫitoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carlito is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 154K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 13K
- NLNetherlands1 in 91K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
15,740 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the male given name Carlos, equivalent to English Charlie
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Carlito is read(measured from records)
Carlito 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.
- English39%
A Philippine tarsier, Carlito syrichta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish31%
a diminutive of the male given name Carlos, equivalent to English Charlie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Carlito in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Carlito 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 15,740 | 1 in 13K | 19K | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,157 | 1 in 154K | 2.1K | Carlito | 163 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 190 | 1 in 91K | 190 | Carlito | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 34 | 1 in 1.5M | 34 | — | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 19 | 1 in 2M | 19 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | #463 | — | — | 75K | Carlito | 85 |
15,740 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Carlito is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given name Carlos, from Spanish, equivalent to English Charlie
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)
- Carlito Maiab. 1924BRBrazilian politician
- Carlitob. 1927BRBrazilian association football player (1927-1980)
- Carlito J. Cenzonb. 1939PHFilipino Roman Catholic bishop (1939-2019)
- Carlito Merssb. 1955BRBrazilian economist
- Carlito Continib. 1960BRVisual Artist
- Carlito Azevedob. 1961BRBrazilian writer and poet
- Carlito Galvez Jr.b. 1962PHPhilippine military official
- Carlito Oliverob. 1989USAmerican singer, actor of Puerto Rican descent
- Poorstacyb. 1999USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and singer
- Carl BalitaPHnot in their usual namePhilippine psychiatric nurse, entrepreneur and politician
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 46 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 19K | #1,423 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 19K | #465 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 16K | #1,253 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 14K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 12K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 8.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 4.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 4.1K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Carlito come from?
- a diminutive of the male given name Carlos, equivalent to English Charlie Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Carlito?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹˈɫitoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Carlito mean?
- In English, A Philippine tarsier, Carlito syrichta
- Is Carlito a male or female name?
- Carlito is a male 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 Carlito?
- In the etymology graph, Charles, Carol and Carl are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Carlos.
- In which country does Carlito have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Carlito, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Carlito most common?
- Carlito is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Carlito?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 15,740 people named Carlito in 2022, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Carlito compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Carlito is the 463rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Carlito?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carlitoThe 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, “Carlito” — the 463rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.