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Charlotte
Pronounced /ˈʃɑɹ.lət/
Rank in 2024
#4
Born in 2024
12,552
Peak year
2021 · #3
Origin
French
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 12,552 girls were named Charlotte, about 1 in every 129.
- It peaked in 2021 with 13,362 babies, ranked #3.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 439,944 girls have been named Charlotte since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Charlotte per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 2.8Greatest1901–27
- 3.4Silent1928–45
- 2.0Boomers1946–64
- 0.9Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 1.6Gen Z1997–12
- 7.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 56,880 babies, 2.78 per 1,000. Silent: 70,474 babies, 3.41 per 1,000. Boomers: 71,070 babies, 1.98 per 1,000. Gen X: 24,184 babies, 0.95 per 1,000. Millennials: 14,380 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Gen Z: 46,489 babies, 1.60 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 147,783 babies, 7.28 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From French Charlotte in the 17th century, a female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz. The civil parish is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
- A female given name from French.
- Origin
- French
- Say it
- /ˈʃɑɹ.lət/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Charlotte, CC BY-SA 4.0.