Carlotta
Just 37 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. An Italian name at root, from the Latin for "free".
Carlotta Pronunciation
Carlotta is pronounced tsahr-LOT-tah (/t͡sarˈlɔtta/).
What Carlotta means
Where Carlotta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Carlotta is the Italian feminine form of Carlo, the name that entered Latin as Carolus. Its meaning has long been read as "free man," a sense carried down from the older root behind Charles. The Latin Carolus gave Europe a large family of names, and Italian bent it into something warmer with that doubled t and the open final vowel.
The "free man" reading sits oddly on a woman's name, and that tension belongs to Carlotta's history. The name began among men and shifted toward women through a diminutive ending. Carlotta Grisi, the Italian ballerina born in 1819, created the title role in Giselle in Paris in 1841. Her name traveled with the ballet across Europe.
In Poland the name reads as clearly foreign. A child called Carlotta stands out on a school register beside the Karolinas. The spelling stays Italian, and so does the sound, three syllables ending on a soft a. The meaning underneath remains "free man."
How many people are named Carlotta
1 in 609293 women in Poland is named Carlotta. 37 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6435 among female names.
Carlotta's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Carlotta as a middle name
Carlotta is a first name for 37 women in Poland and a middle name for another 18, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1706th, between Camelia (18) and Carmel (18).
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#1704 Balladyna18
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#1705 Camelia18
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#1706 Carlotta18
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#1707 Carmel18
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#1708 Chrystiana18