Entry № 5247 · Spanish origin

Karla Karla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAR-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Free woman (Karla Sofía Gascón, Oscar nominee)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "free woman (karla sofía gascón, oscar nominee)".

Karla is the Spanish, German, and Czech form of Carla — the feminine of Karl/Carl ("free man" in Old Germanic). Karla Bonoff (born 1951) — American singer-songwriter. Karla María — Mexican-American singer.

Free woman (Karla Sofía Gascón, Oscar nominee) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Karla
Transliteration
Karla
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑːr.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Karla stands.

Karla does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Karlas before her.

Real people
Karla Sofía Gascón
Spanish Oscar-nominated actress.
born 1972
Karla Souza
Mexican actress.
born 1985
Karla Bonoff
American singer-songwriter.
born 1951
In fiction
Karla
Various Spanish-language film.

Names connected to Karla.

The number behind Karla.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Karla reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.