Lotta

Where Lotta comes from

The dictionaries list Lotta as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Charlotta — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #366
    25 babies named Lotta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #757.
  4. 1984
    Lotta Schelin born
    Swedish association football player
  5. 1989
    Lotta Lepistö born
    Finnish cyclist
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Charlotta.
Namesakes
  • Lotta Schelin · Swedish association football player, born 1984
  • Lotta Lepistö · Finnish cyclist, born 1989
  • Lotta Lotass · Swedish writer, Member of the Swedish Academy, born 1964
  • Lotta Udnes Weng · Norwegian cross-country skier, born 1996
  • Lotta Kemppinen · Finnish sprinter, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.