Given name & surname
Lotten
“free man”
In Swedish use, Lotten is a diminutive of Charlotte. The older Germanic root shared with Charles means “free man.” Charlotte keeps that historical connection in a feminine form.
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Swedish use, Lotten is a diminutive of Charlotte. The older Germanic root shared with Charles means “free man.” Charlotte keeps that historical connection in a feminine form.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In Swedish use, Lotten is a diminutive of Charlotte. Charlotte belongs to English and French naming traditions and was formed as a feminine diminutive of Charles.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Swedish usage, Lotten is a diminutive of Charlotte. In Swedish usage, Lotten is a diminutive of Charlotta. In Swedish use, Lotten is a diminutive of Charlotte. The shared background comes through Charlotte: Charlotte was formed from Charles using a feminine diminutive ending. Charlotte’s connection to the Charles family also links it to the older Germanic root behind that name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
The story
In Swedish use, Lotten 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.
Explained through its name family
Lotten’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Lotten is a diminutive of Charlotte. In Swedish usage, Lotten is a diminutive of Charlotta.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 Lotten
- Lotten von KræmerSwedish writer1828–1912
- Lotten EdholmSwedish composer1839–1930
- Lotten RönquistSwedish artist (1864-1912)
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