Meaning of the nameCarlito

Male
Germanic origin
Car-li-to

Carlito is a male name, a diminutive of Carlos, which comes from the Latin Carolus, a form of the Germanic name Karl, from a word meaning 'man'.

Meaning

“diminutive of Carlos, from the Germanic Karl, from a word meaning 'man'”

Source: Behind the Name: Carlos · Behind the Name: Charles

People (2022): 15,740
Rank in Brazil: #1,253
Median age: 54 years
2010 Census: 19,346; people

Carlito in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Carlito, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (4,060 people).

43 women 15,697 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Carlito is most common

States with the highest share of people named Carlito in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Bahia 0.028%
Tocantins 0.019%
Mato Grosso 0.012%
Goiás 0.011%
Espírito Santo 0.011%

All states

State	People	% of population
Bahia	3,938	0.028%
São Paulo	2,107	0.005%
Minas Gerais	1,620	0.008%
Paraná	1,033	0.009%
Goiás	790	0.011%
Pará	642	0.008%
Maranhão	581	0.009%
Ceará	524	0.006%
Rio de Janeiro	462	0.003%
Santa Catarina	424	0.006%
Mato Grosso	424	0.012%
Espírito Santo	420	0.011%
Rio Grande do Sul	396	0.004%
Piauí	326	0.010%
Tocantins	281	0.019%
Pernambuco	244	0.003%
Sergipe	207	0.009%
Mato Grosso do Sul	190	0.007%
Alagoas	182	0.006%
Distrito Federal	182	0.007%
Amazonas	180	0.005%
Paraíba	178	0.005%
Rondônia	172	0.011%
Rio Grande do Norte	140	0.004%
Acre	47	0.006%
Roraima	30	0.005%
Amapá	20	0.003%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Carlito

Behind the Name lists Carlito among the Portuguese and Spanish diminutives of Carlos, and Wiktionary records it as a diminutive of Carlos in Spanish. Wiktionary gives Carlos, in Portuguese, as inherited from the Latin Carolus, of Germanic origin, and Behind the Name explains Carolus as the Latin form of the Germanic name Karl, derived from a word meaning 'man', also citing a theory that links it to the Germanic element harjaz, 'army'. 'Man' is therefore the meaning of the base name Carlos. Carlito is almost always male and most frequent among people born from the 1950s to the 1970s. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 15,740 people named Carlito, with a median age of 54; proportionally, it is most common in Bahia.

Sources

Behind the Name: Carlos · behindthename.com · meaning
Behind the Name: Charles · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Carlito · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Wiktionary: Carlos · en.wiktionary.org · origin

Questions about the name Carlito

What does the name Carlito mean?

Carlito means “diminutive of Carlos, from the Germanic Karl, from a word meaning 'man'”, according to Behind the Name.

How many people are named Carlito in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 15,740 people with the first name Carlito, which ranks it number 1,253 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

Is Carlito a boy's or a girl's name?

Carlito is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 43 women and 15,697 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Carlito?

Carlito is a name of Germanic origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Carlito most common?

Proportionally, in Bahia: 0.028% of the state's population is named Carlito (3,938 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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