Given name & surname
Charlot
“the son of Charlemagne”
Charlot is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “the son of Charlemagne.”
Original FrenchCharles
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “the son of Charlemagne.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
In French usage, Charlot is a diminutive of Charles. In French usage, Charlot is a diminutive of Charlotte.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In French use, Charlot is a diminutive of Charlotte. The history of Charlotte gives this family its wider story. Charlotte was used in England by the seventeenth century. Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, and the novelist Charlotte Brontë helped strengthen its presence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Charlot through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 145
- 0 boys · 145 girls
- Most popular year
- 1955
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1972. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 1955. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 304 as a first name in 2020; 1,487 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Charlot’s family of names
In French usage, Charlot is a diminutive of Charles. In Norman usage, Charlot shares a linguistic root with the Walloon form Tchårlot. Charlot has a related form in Charla.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Charlot has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Charlot
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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