Charlotte
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Feminine form of Charles, from Carl ‘man’; used as a European given name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Charlotte is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 633(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3K
- RORomania≈1 in 5.3Kas שרלוטה
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 Charlotte 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 555 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled שרלוט in FR France, DK Denmark, BE Belgium, שרלוטה in RO Romania, DE Germany and Charlotta in SE Sweden.
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)
Feminine form of Charles, from Carl ‘man’; used as a European given name.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Charlotte 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Charlotte | 40 |
| US United States | — | 254,532 | 1 in 1.3K | 254K | Charlotte | 555 |
| FR France | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 652 | 154K | שרלוט | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 633 | 1.4K | Charlotte | 370 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | שרלוטה | 222 |
| SE Sweden | — | 31,606 | 1 in 323 | 32K | Charlotta | 131 |
| DK Denmark | — | 23,455 | 1 in 250 | 23K | שרלוט | 182 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 651 | 140 | שרלוט | 149 |
| RO Romania | #500 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | שרלוטה | 24 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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)
Charlotte is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, feminine of Charles; from Germanic *karal- 'man, husband'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In French, Feminine of Charles, from Germanic Karl 'free man'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, French feminine of Charles, from Germanic roots.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
French feminine diminutive of Charles, used in England since the 17th century, but most popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, in part due to the influence of firstly Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of George III, and secondly the novelist Charlotte Bronté (1816-55). Pet forms: Lottie, Tottie, Charlie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Feminine of kart; see main dictionary. Sophie Charlotte was the name of the wife of Friedrich I of Prussia.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Princess Charlotte Augusta of Walesb. 1796GBBritish princess (1796-1817); only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV)
- Charlotte Brontëb. 1816GBBritish novelist and poet (1816-1855)
- Charlotte van Belgiëb. 1840BEEmpress consort of Mexico (1863-1867)
- Alexandra of Denmarkb. 1844DKnot in their usual nameQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
- Liliane Bettencourtb. 1922FRnot in their usual nameFrench heiress, socialite and businesswoman
- Charlotte Ramplingb. 1946GBBritish actress (born 1946)
- Annalena Baerbockb. 1980DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (born 1980)
- Charlotte Flairb. 1986USAmerican professional wrestler and actress
- Emma Watsonb. 1990GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (born 1990)
- Princess Charlotte of Walesb. 2015GBdaughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 136 sources across 74 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 254K | #212 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 154K | #36 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32K | #134 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23K | #14 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 12K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 1.4K | #23 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 263 | #212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 222 | #89,563 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1995 | 203 | #44 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 191 | #10 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 170 | #98,770 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Charlotte mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of Charles, from Carl ‘man’; used as a European given name. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How common is the name Charlotte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 254,532 people named Charlotte in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Charlotte compared with other names?
- In Romania, Charlotte is the 500th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Charlotte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Charlotte in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charlotte.
- Where is Charlotte most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Charlotte is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 250 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Charlotte?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charlotteThe 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, “Charlotte” — the 500th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.