Lotta

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Lotta is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

• Swedish41%

  a member of a women's voluntary defense corps, a member (in Finland) of Lotta Svärd

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English18%

  Contraction of lot of.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German12%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Lotta in German.

• Finnish11%

  member of Lotta Svärd

  as a word·kaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lotta, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Ronja
• Frieda
• Ebba
• Freja
• Maja
• Hedda
• Ida
• Idun
• Hilda
• Frida
• Charlotte
• Ingrid

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Lotta is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Croatian given name13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Sweden, Finland

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Лота, Lota

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Lotta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Guía

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Italian, fight, struggle

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Lotta Woodsb. 1869USAmerican screenwriter
• Lotta Johnsson Fornarveb. 1956SESwedish politician
• Lotta Kristine Johanna Kjellbergb. 1958SEmother of PewDiePie
• Lotta Lotassb. 1964SESwedish writer, Member of the Swedish Academy
• Lotta Lehtikarib. 1974FIFinnish actress
• Lotta Lostenb. 1981SESwedish actress, designer, and photographer
• Lotta Schelinb. 1984SESwedish association football player
• Lotta Henttalab. 1989FIFinnish cyclist
• Lotta Udnes Wengb. 1996NONorwegian cross-country skier
• Eva-Lotta Kiibusb. 2003EEEstonian figure skater (born 2003)

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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Lotta mean, and where does it come from?

a member of a women's voluntary defense corps, a member (in Finland) of Lotta Svärd Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

In which country does Lotta have the most bearers?

In Finland, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Lotta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lotta.

Where is Lotta most common?

Lotta is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 473 people carrying it.

What are other forms of the name Lotta?

In the etymology graph, Carolyn, Carolina and Carla are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Charlotta.

How do you pronounce Lotta?

It depends on the language: in Swedish /l̪ɔt̪a/; in Finnish /ˈlotːɑ/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Lotta a male or female name?

Lotta is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV), Norway (SSB), Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB), among others.

How common is the name Lotta?

In Finland, the national register counted 11,789 people named Lotta, about 1 in 473 residents.

How common is Lotta compared with other names?

In Finland, Lotta is the 698th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.