Carla
About 150,815 American babies have been named Carla since 1890, most of them around 1962. In 2025 it ranked 1,082nd. About 131,000 Carlas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Carla boys named Carla
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 150,815
- Estimated living today
- 131,000
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 78th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,082nd
- First recorded
- 1890
- Girls / boys
- 150,390 / 425
How old the living Carlas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 150,815 babies given the name since 1890, about 131,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 5,600 of them are children and 34,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From de, it Carla.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Carlas
- Carla Bruni (born 1967)Italian and French singer, model and spouse of former president of France
- Carla Gugino (born 1971)American actress
- Carla Del Ponte (born 1947)International jurist
- Carla Suárez Navarro (born 1988)Spanish tennis player
- Carla Bley (1936–2023)American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
- Carla Juri (born 1985)Swiss actress
- Carla Fracci (1936–2021)Italian ballet dancer and actress
- Carla Simón (born 1986)Spanish-Catalan film director and screenwriter
People named Carla with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Carla is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Carla is most concentrated in New Mexico (1.7×), the District of Columbia (1.5×), Oklahoma (1.5×), South Dakota (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular girls’ names the year Carla peaked:
Carla elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Carla | 65,487 | 5th |
| France girls | Carla | 27,200 | 36th |
| Italy girls | Carla | 6,268 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Carla | 3,290 | 186th |
| Scotland girls | Carla | 1,540 | 89th |
| Switzerland girls | Carla | 1,340 | 92nd |
| Ireland girls | Carla | 1,274 | 123rd |
| Belgium girls | Carla | 849 | 192nd |
| New Zealand girls | Carla | 323 | 74th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Carla | 294 | 79th |
| Norway girls | Carla | 286 | 332nd |
| Poland girls | Carla | 149 birth registrations | 303rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Carla: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Carla | 1,114 | 0.090% | 100th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Carla | 214 | 0.049% | 72nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Carla | 9 | 0.014% | 122nd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Carla | 3 | 0.081% | 10th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Carla is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.14% of children were given it – 51 of them.
Carla: rank by region
In 2025, Carla was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Carla | 656 | 7 |
| Wallonia | Carla | 327 | 8 |
In 2024, Carla was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castilla y León | Carla | 8 | 78 |
| Extremadura | Carla | 7 | 57 |
In 2025, Carla was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Carla | 326 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Carla appears in the lists for Province of Liège (157th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Carla by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 237 | 79th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Carla among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Carla | 10,700 | 13,637 |
| Finland girls | Carla | 317 | 401 |
| the Netherlands boys | Carla | — | 85 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Carla lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 87,268 women called Carla were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Carla | 17,010 | 5.589 | 30 |
| Girona | Carla | 2,212 | 5.342 | 28 |
| Lleida | Carla | 1,157 | 5.193 | 32 |
| Valencia/València | Carla | 7,301 | 5.174 | 33 |
| Pontevedra | Carla | 2,383 | 4.858 | 39 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Carla | 1,512 | 4.792 | 36 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Carla against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.