In 2025, 35 US girls were named Carlotta, making it the 4,086th most common girls’ name of the year, down 848 places from #3,238 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 49 girls named Carlotta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #515, reached in 1948. That year also had the most girls given the name: 255. For comparison, it was #7,040 in 2015 and #636 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carlotta in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 6,462 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,286 babies named Carlotta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 294 US girls were named Carlotta; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Charlotte (454,204 babies since 1880) and Carletta (3,060 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carlita, Carletha and Carleta are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lottie.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.