Lotte
Lotte was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,563 among girls’ names; 94 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lotte by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lotte mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lotte is “a diminutive of the female given name Charlotte.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lotte?
#10,563 among girls’ names, 2025
Lotte entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,563 in 2025.
13 babies in 2024, the peak
Lotte peaked in 2024, when 13 girls were given it, #8,241 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,563 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,241 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,351 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,545 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,987 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,944 | 7.1 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,971 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,419 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,307 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,827 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 | #9,034 | 3.0 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,807 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lotte a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lotte has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lotte: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lotte, and how old are they?
An estimated 85 Americans named Lotte 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 460 people named Lotte (460 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 49 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9.4 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 50,432 babies since 1880, Lotte is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 590 babies (1.5%), the third most given that year.
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 Lotte
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 Lotte and names like it
- Compare Lotte and LottieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLotte peaked in 2024.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Lotte.
- Names starting with LMost given first.