Charlotte

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Charlotte boys named Charlotte

By the numbers

Total US births

454,204

Estimated living today

323,000

Median age today

13

Peak year

2025

Best rank

2nd

Rank in 2025

2nd

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

453,433 / 771

How old the living Charlottes are

born that year still alive today

Of the 454,204 babies given the name since 1880, about 323,000 are alive — 71 in every hundred. Roughly 187,000 of them are children and 70,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 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 French

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).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Charlottes

• Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)British novelist and poet
• Charlotte Rampling (born 1946)British actress
• Princess Charlotte of Wales (born 2015)daughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
• Charlotte Gainsbourg (born 1971)French and British actress and singer
• Charlotte Perrelli (born 1974)Swedish singer
• Charlotte Corday (1768–1793)figure of the French Revolution
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer
• Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744–1818)Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland from 1761 to 1818

People named Charlotte with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Charlotte is most common

• CA33,603
• NY28,712
• TX28,039
• PA24,710
• IL21,187
• OH19,862
• MI15,043
• FL14,774
• VA14,578
• GA13,172

Relative to how many babies each state records, Charlotte is most concentrated in New Hampshire (1.6×), Vermont (1.6×), Delaware (1.5×), Virginia (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular girls’ names the year Charlotte peaked:

• Olivia
• Charlotte
• Emma
• Amelia
• Sophia
• Mia

All the names of 2025

Charlotte elsewhere

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.

Charlotte: births by region

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, Charlotte is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.38% of children were given it – 630 of them.

Charlotte: rank by region

In 2025, Charlotte was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2023, Charlotte was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Charlotte was given 2 times or more in 7 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Charlotte appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (11th), Province of Walloon Brabant (32nd), Province of Liège (34th), Province of Namur (42nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (48th), Province of Antwerp (49th), Province of Hainaut (51st), Brussels-Capital Region (74th), Province of West Flanders (103rd) and Province of East Flanders (140th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy 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.

Charlotte by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Charlotte 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.

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 Charlotte lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,136 women called Charlotte 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

Listed in 32 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 20 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Charles
• Chad
• Charlie
• Chase
• Charlene
• Chance
• Chandler
• Charity
• Charley
• Chasity
• Charlee
• Chanel

Charlotte against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Charlotte vs Charles
• Charlotte vs Chad
• Charlotte vs Charlie
• Charlotte vs Chase
• Charlotte vs Charlene
• Charlotte vs Chance

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