Charlotta
Fewer than 60 women in Poland carry this name, so most people here will go a lifetime without meeting one. Germanic at root, from a word for "free man", and given today only to girls.
Charlotta Pronunciation
Charlotta is pronounced khahr-LOT-tah (/xarˈlɔtta/).
What Charlotta means
Where Charlotta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Charlotta comes from the Germanic name Karl, and the old root karl meant "free man". The form is feminine, and Scandinavia is where it settled and grew common. Swedish records show the name in use since the 1600s. A girl named Charlotta holds a word that once described a man who owed no master.
One woman fixed the name in Swedish memory. Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, born in Stockholm in 1718, became one of the country's first women to live by her pen. Her early poems mourned a fiancé and a husband, both lost young, and grief made her voice plain and direct. She died in 1763, already counted among Sweden's leading writers.
In Sweden the calendar keeps a day for the name. Charlotta celebrates her namnsdag on the twelfth of May. In Poland the name stays rare, and a Charlotta on a school register still turns a head at roll call. The meaning under it does not change. Free man, wolny człowiek, from a Germanic root older than either country's borders.
How many people are named Charlotta
1 in 382099 women in Poland is named Charlotta. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4801 among female names.
Charlotta's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Charlotta as a middle name
Charlotta is a first name for 59 women in Poland and a middle name for another 50, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 962nd, between Chanel (50) and Estefania (50).
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#960 Aisza50
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#961 Chanel50
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#962 Charlotta50
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#963 Estefania50
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#964 Ioana50