Szarlota
Only about 300 Polish women carry it, and no girls got it last year: most people here have never met one. It comes from Latin, a feminine form of a name that once meant "free man".
Szarlota Pronunciation
Szarlota is pronounced shahr-LO-tah (/ʂarˈlɔta/).
What Szarlota means
Where Szarlota comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Szarlota comes into Polish from Latin, and its meaning, once you translate it, gives you pause. Wolny człowiek. A free man, on a name that Polish hands to daughters.
The Latin origin lends the name a certain gravity, the kind you meet on official paper. Picture it entered in full at the urząd, Szarlota in block capitals beside a date of birth, a spelling that Polish rounded and softened before it settled. The reading of a free person was fastened to the name later, and it held.
Girls who carry it tend to learn early how to spell it for a teacher who slows down at the sz. That pause belongs to the name now. Underneath, the meaning stays the same wherever it is written: wolny człowiek, a free man.
How many people are named Szarlota
1 in 74896 women in Poland is named Szarlota. 301 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1741 among female names.
Szarlota as a middle name
Szarlota is a first name for 301 women in Poland and a middle name for another 220, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 456th, between Modesta (220) and Rebeka (219).
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#454 Livia222
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#455 Modesta220
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#456 Szarlota220
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#457 Rebeka219
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#458 Sylvia218