Entry № 1922 · French origin

Charlotte Charlotte — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAR-lot /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Free, strong"
Syllables
2
Rank · US 2025
№ 2
First recorded
16th c.

A name that means "free, strong".

Charlotte is the French feminine form of Charles, both deriving from the Old Germanic karl, meaning "free man" or "strong man." The name became a royal staple in eighteenth-century Europe: Queen Charlotte (1744–1818), wife of George III of Great Britain, gave her name to the capital of North Carolina, an Atlantic queen of cities and ports.

Free, strong — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Charlotte
Transliteration
Charlotte
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɑːr.lət /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Charlotte stands.

Current rank · 2025
№ 2 in the U.S.

Charlottes before her.

Real people
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist. Author of Jane Eyre.
1816 – 1855
Queen Charlotte
Queen consort of King George III of Great Britain.
1744 – 1818
Princess Charlotte of Wales
Daughter of William and Catherine.
born 2015
In fiction
Charlotte A. Cavatica
Spider in E.B. White's Charlotte's Web.
1952 children's novel
Charlotte York
Character in Sex and the City.
HBO, 1998–2004

Names connected to Charlotte.

The number behind Charlotte.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Charlotte reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.