Charlot
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: a diminutive of the male given name Charles, feminine equivalent Charlotte
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃaʁlo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Charlot is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- BEBelgium
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of Charles; first attested John Charlot 1275 SRWo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Charlot is read(measured from records)
Charlot is one spelling over 2 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.
- French70%
a diminutive of the male given name Charles, feminine equivalent Charlotte
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Diminutif de Charles, du germanique Karl « homme libre ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
dérivé de Charles.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Diminutif de Charles.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- English23%
diminutive of Charles; first attested John Charlot 1275 SRWo
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Irish form of Charlotte, itself a feminine form of Charles.
as a nameIrish first names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Charlotb. 1827FRFrench composer (1827–1871)
- Jacques Charlotb. 1885FRFrench military personnel (1885–1915)
- Jean Charlotb. 1898FRPainter and illustrator (1898–1979)
- Paul Charlotb. 1906FRFrench painter (1906–1985)
- Edmond Charlotb. 1915FRFrench publisher (1915–2004)
- Juli Lynne Charlotb. 1922USAmerican fashion designer (1922–2024)
- Monica Charlotb. 1933FRFrench historian of British culture & scholar (1933–2005)
- Monique Pinçon-Charlotb. 1946FRFrench sociologist
- Alexandre Charlotb. 1953FRFrench film director and screenwriter
- Claude CharlotFRphysicist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,405 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,688 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 730 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 414 | #3,766 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 396 | #4,047 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 53 | #100,662 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 40 | #52,449 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 40 | #51,690 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 38 | #22,915 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #47,145 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Charlot come from?
- diminutive of Charles; first attested John Charlot 1275 SRWo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Charlot?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃaʁlo/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Charlot mean?
- In French, a diminutive of the male given name Charles, feminine equivalent Charlotte
- What are other forms of the name Charlot?
- In the etymology graph, Kale, Carel and Carlu are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Charlot have the most bearers?
- Charlot is most frequently recorded in France.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charlotThe 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, “Charlot”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.