Charlotte
Meaning of Charlotte
Charlotte, whose lilting syllables—pronounced simply “SHAHR-luht”—float like a summer waltz along the Seine, owes her lineage to the French diminutive of Charles, itself sprung from the ancient Germanic “Karl,” meaning “free one”; and freedom, it seems, has forever followed her, from Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz guiding gardens in Georgian London to Charlotte Brontë channeling windswept moors into ink, to the kindhearted spider who spun salvation in a child’s barn. She is a name that wears a crown yet kicks off her satin slippers to chase fireflies: regal enough for a modern princess in Buckingham’s glow, playful enough to giggle through the pages of Charlotte’s Web, and sturdy enough to stride through boardrooms with quiet command. In the Estados Unidos she has risen like a dawn chorus—year after year parents returning to her soft-but-strong embrace—because in Charlotte they hear both a lullaby and a trumpet call, a bouquet of vintage roses tied with a scarlet ribbon of possibility.
Pronunciation
British English
- Pronunced as SHAHR-luht (/ʃɑrˈlɔt/)
American English
- Pronunced as SHAHR-luht (/ʃɑrˈlʊt/)
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Notable People Named Charlotte
| Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr is an American pro wrestler known as Charlotte Flair on WWE SmackDown and is currently one half of the WWE Womens Tag Team Champions with Alexa Bliss. |
| Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of King George III, was Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland from 1761 to 1818, became Queen of Hanover in 1814, and is Britain’s longest-serving queen consort. |
| Charlotte Brontë - Charlotte Bronte, elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell, was an English novelist and poet best known for Jane Eyre, first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg is a French and British actress and singer, daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, who debuted musically with her father, later released acclaimed albums, starred in films including with Lars von Trier, and won two Cesar Awards and Cannes Best Actress. |
| Charlotte Casiraghi - Charlotte Marie Pomeline Casiraghi is a Monegasque model, socialite, equestrian, and journalist, the second child of Princess Caroline of Hanover and Stefano Casiraghi, eleventh in line to the Monaco throne, granddaughter of Rainier III and Grace Kelly, and named for her great grandmother Princess Charlotte. |
| Charlotte Mason - At the turn of the twentieth century, British educator and reformer Charlotte Maria Shaw Mason championed a wide liberal curriculum and spent five years under Fanny Trevor at Bishop Otter College. |
| Charlotte Rae Lubotsky was an American character actress and singer with a 66 year career. |
| Charlotte Pence Bond - Charlotte Rose Pence Bond is an American writer and the elder daughter of former Vice President Mike Pence and former Second Lady Karen Pence. |
| Scottish author and critic Charlotte Lennox, famed for The Female Quixote, earned praise from Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding, was celebrated in art, and is remembered for pioneering Shakespeare source studies and her magazine The Ladys Museum. |
| Charlotte Saunders Cushman was an American stage actress with a rich contralto who played both male and female roles and spent periods in Rome among expatriate artists who figured in her stormy private life. |
| Charlotte E. Ray, who graduated from Howard Law in 1872, was the first black woman lawyer in the United States and the first woman admitted to the District of Columbia Bar and to practice before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, setting a precedent for women nationwide. |
| Charlotte Angas Scott was a British-born mathematician who shaped American mathematics, championed womens education, and helped reform Cambridges Mathematical Tripos. |
| Charlotte Mew was an English poet who bridged Victorian and Modernist poetry. |
| Charlotte Osei is a Ghanaian lawyer who became the first woman to lead the Electoral Commission of Ghana, had her 2018 dismissal challenged in court, and later served as a UN advisor on elections in Afghanistan. |
| English tennis star Charlotte Cooper Sterry won five Wimbledon singles titles and in 1900 became the first woman to win Olympic tennis and the first individual female Olympic champion. |
