Charlotta
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Swedish: a female given name derived from Charlotte. Diminutive: Lotta
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/ɧar²ɭota/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Charlotta is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 388(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 554K
- FIFinland1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 388 (inferred from the name graph)
26,267 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant of Charlotte; feminine of Charles
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Charlotta is read
(measured from records)Charlotta 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.
- Swedish40%
a female given name derived from Charlotte. Diminutive: Lotta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Charlotta är en latinisering av → Charlotte. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 12 maj, efter Karl xiii:s gemål Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta av Holstein-Gottorp (1759–1818).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- English36%
variant of Charlotte; feminine of Charles
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Charlotta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #176 | 26,267 | 1 in 388 | 26K | Charlotta | 116 |
| FI Finland | — | 4,009 | 1 in 1.4K | 5.7K | Charlotta | 36 |
| BJ Benin | #253 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Charlotta | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 663 | 1 in 26K | 663 | Charlotta | 16 |
| US United States | — | 600 | 1 in 554K | 600 | Charlotta | 178 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 452 | 1 in 24K | 452 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 19 | 1 in 18K | 19 | Charlotta | 7 |
26,267 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); MVČR — living population register 2017; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflychtb. 1718SESwedish poet
- Princess Amalia of Swedenb. 1805SEnot in their usual nameSwedish princess (1805-1853)
- Fredrika Charlotta Runebergb. 1807FIFinland Swedish novelist, Finland's first female journalist (1807–1879)
- Aurora Karamzinab. 1808FInot in their usual nameFinnish-Swedish philanthropist (1808–1902)
- Princess Eugénie of Swedenb. 1830SEnot in their usual nameSwedish princess; daughter of Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg (1830–1889)
- Emmy Achtéb. 1850FInot in their usual nameFinnish opera singer
- Lotten Dahlgrenb. 1851SEnot in their usual nameSwedish journalist, editor (1851-1934)
- Alice Tegnérb. 1864SEnot in their usual nameSwedish music teacher and children's songs composer (1864–1943)
- Lotta Schelinb. 1984SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player
- Fanny Roosb. 1995SEnot in their usual nameSwedish female shot putter
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)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 26K | #165 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 6.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 6.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 6.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 6.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 6.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 6.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 6.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 6K | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Charlotta come from?
- variant of Charlotte; feminine of Charles Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Charlotta?
- In the etymology graph, Carolyn, Carolina and Carla are forms of the same name in other languages; Lotta is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Charlotta?
- A machine transcription gives /ɧar²ɭota/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Charlotta have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Charlotta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charlotta.
- Where is Charlotta most common?
- Charlotta is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 388 people carrying it.
- Is Charlotta a male or female name?
- Charlotta is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- What does the name Charlotta mean?
- In Swedish, a female given name derived from Charlotte. Diminutive: Lotta
- How common is the name Charlotta?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 26,267 people named Charlotta, about 1 in 388 residents.
- How common is Charlotta compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Charlotta is the 176th most common given name of 45,482 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/charlottaThe 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, “Charlotta” — the 176th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.