Lotta
Lotta was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 499 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lotta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lotta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lotta is “a diminutive of the female given name Charlotta.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lotta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,795, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1883, the peak
Lotta peaked in 1883, when 25 girls were given it, #370 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #17,795 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,179 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,347 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,993 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,582 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,617 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,324 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 7 | #4,008 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,302 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,886 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,076 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,062 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,494 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,100 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,494 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,182 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,296 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,354 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,470 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,823 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,091 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,623 | 0.01 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,304 | 0.01 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,500 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,105 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,041 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,392 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,412 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,277 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,428 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 15 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 13 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1890 | 10 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 12 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 19 | #587 | 0.11 |
| 1887 | 16 | #574 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 20 | #500 | 0.14 |
| 1885 | 20 | #477 | 0.15 |
| 1884 | 17 | #513 | 0.13 |
| 1883 | 25 | #370 | 0.22 |
| 1882 | 21 | #394 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 16 | #426 | 0.17 |
| 1880 | 12 | #511 | 0.13 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lotta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lotta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lotta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lotta, and how old are they?
An estimated 34 Americans named Lotta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 196 people named Lotta (196 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 61,698 babies since 1880, Lotta is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 586 babies recorded by SSA was a Lotta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lotta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lotta and names like it
- Compare Lotta and LottieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1880sLotta peaked in 1883.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lotta since 1910.
- The top names of 1883The year the most babies were named Lotta.
- Names starting with LMost given first.