Lotte
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lotte is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Danish, recorded as a diminutive of the female given name Charlotte.
- NLNetherlands1 in 779(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4.1K
- DEGermany≈1 in 11K
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 Lotte 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- 1 in 731 (inferred from the name graph)
22,178 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 diminutive of the female given name Charlotte
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lotte is read(measured from records)
Lotte 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.
- Dutch24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lotte in Dutch.
- German24%
) Lotta: weibl. Vom., beliebte
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Danish23%
a diminutive of the female given name Charlotte
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
burbot (fish)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Lotte 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.
22,178 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)
Lotte 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.
Reduced form of CHARLOTTE.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a member of a female paramilitary organization
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, burbot (a freshwater fish, Lota lota)
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)
- Lotte Lehmannb. 1888DEGerman soprano (1888–1976)
- Lotte Reinigerb. 1899DEGerman silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981)
- Lotte Ulbrichtb. 1903DEGerman politician (1903-2002)
- Lotte Stam-Beeseb. 1903NLDutch architect, photographer, and urban planner (1903–1988)
- Lotte Wæverb. 1942DKDanish actress
- Lotta Tejleb. 1960SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress and singer
- Lotte Verbeekb. 1982NLDutch actress
- Lotte Friisb. 1988DKDanish swimmer
- Lotte van Beekb. 1991NLDutch speed skater
- Lotte Kopeckyb. 1995BEBelgian cyclist
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 55 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lotte mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Charlotte Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lotte?
- In the etymology graph, Carolyn, Carolina and Carla are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lotte have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Lotte, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lotte.
- Where is Lotte most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lotte is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 731 people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- Is Lotte a male or female name?
- Lotte 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.
- How common is the name Lotte?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 22,178 people named Lotte, about 1 in 779 residents.
- How common is Lotte compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Lotte is the 181st most common given name of 101,916 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/lotteThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lotte” — the 181st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.