MEANING & HISTORY
What does Carlota mean?
Carlota is the Spanish form corresponding to Charlotte, documented in Tagalog, Cebuano and Spanish name senses. It belongs to the feminine Charles family and its older Germanic man or freeman vocabulary.
A later feminine name does not turn that historical root into a claim about the bearer’s gender or legal status. Carlota and Charlotte share a family but retain different established language forms. The final -a is part of the recorded spelling rather than an independently meaningful word added by a modern family.
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /kaɾˈlota/Standard-Tagalog
- [k̠ɐɾˈloː.t̪ɐ]Standard-Tagalog
Car · lo · ta3 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Carlota.
a female given name, equivalent to English Charlotte
Wiktionary: Carlota (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
CebuanoEtymology & source
Borrowed from Spanish Carlota.
a female given name, equivalent to English Charlotte
Wiktionary: Carlota (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
a female given name, equivalent to English Charlotte
Wiktionary: Carlota (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Carlota in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Carlota
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Carla♀Feminine form of Carl or Karl
- Carlito♂Affectionate form of Carlos
- Carlo♂Italian form of Charles; man or freeman
- Carlos♂Spanish form of Karl, traditionally “man”
- Cadlos♂Cebuano pronunciation form of Carlos
- Caloy♂Familiar form of Carlo, Carlos, or Carl
- Cara♀Beloved in Italian or friend in Irish
- Cardo♂Short form of Ricardo; brave ruler-name family
What rhymes with Carlota?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Carlota further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Carlota (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Carlota (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Carlota (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources — Charles (opens in a new tab)
Older man/freeman name vocabulary.