Etymology

Proper noun

1. , used in the English-speaking world since the seventeenth century.
2. The largest city in the state of North Carolina.

Quotations

• 1852 D. H. Jacques, A Chapter on Names, The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, August 1852, page 117:

  My Charlotte conquers with a smile, / And reigneth queen of love.

  In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie.

• 1859 George Eliot, Adam Bede, Chapter VII:

  "Here's Totty! By-and-by, what's her other name? She wasn't christened Totty."

  "Oh, sir, we call her sadly out of name. Charlotte's her christened name. It's a name i' Mr. Poyser's family; his grandmother was named Charlotte. But we began calling her Lotty, and now it's got to Totty. To be sure it's more like a name for a dog than a Christian child."

Proper noun

1. of origin. Variants: Lotte, Liselotte.

Proper noun

1. ; a feminine diminutive form of .

Proper noun

1. of origin. Variants: Lotte, Lieselotte, Liselotte.

Proper noun

1. of origin. Diminutive: Lotte.