Carla

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Italian

Meaning

Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ceorl in Old English, which means "free man".

From Wikipedia

Carla first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 62 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1962 with 424 babies (rank #44 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Carla

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Carla yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

8,670
Total babies (all years)
62
Years in the data
424
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1952344#50
1953338#48
1954357#43
1955351#47
1956420#35
1957380#47
1958383#47
1959379#50
1960422#43
1961416#45
1962424#44
1963373#51
1964397#46
1965368#54
1966345#60
1967283#70
1968261#78
1969267#86
1970214#99
1971195#105
1972148#131
1973125#143
1974129#133
1975102#157
1976103#159
1977100#158
1978108#145
197984#187
1980111#156
1981103#160
198275#202
198361#228
198470#213
198544#310
198631#392
198750#285
198827#439
198936#368
199032#419
199121#547
199214#663
199329#440
199421#537
199511#754
199613#678
199717#592
19987#943
19996#1,004
20005#1,065
200111#731
200213#688
20036#970
20046#957
20054#1,124
20064#1,099
20074#1,093
20086#897
20097#824
20113#1,121
20122#1,106
20132#1,151
20142#969