Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ceorl in Old English, which means "free man".^[1]

People

Notable people with the name include:

Carla Lazzari, French singer and former member of the children's music group Kids United
Carla Abellana, Filipina actress and commercial model
Carla Angola, Venezuelan journalist and television presenter
Carla Azar, drummer and singer for the band Autolux
Carla Baratta, (born 1990), Venezuelan actress, model, and artist.
Carla Barbarella, (born 1940), Italian politician
Carla Barbarino, retired Italian sprinter and hurdler
Carla Beck, Canadian politician
Carla Berrocal (born 1983), Spanish comics illustrator
Carla Berube, American college basketball coach
Carla Beurskens, prominent long-distance runner from the Netherlands
Carla Blank, American choreographer, writer, and editor
Carla Bley, American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
Carla Bonner, Australian actress
Carla Borrego, Jamaican basketball and netball player
Carla Boyce (born 1998), Scottish footballer
Carla Boyd, retired Australian basketball player with 2 Olympic medals
Carla Bozulich, lead singer, lyricist and founder of The Geraldine Fibbers
Carla Bruni, Italian-French singer, songwriter and former model
Carla Cassidy, American romance novelist
Carla Cook, jazz vocalist
Carla Cortijo, Puerto Rican basketball player
Carla Cotwright-Williams, African-American mathematician
Carla Couto, Portuguese football striker
Carla Cunningham (born 1963), American politician
Carla Del Poggio, Italian cinema, theatre, and television actress
Carla Del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor at two United Nations international criminal law tribunals
Carla Duff, brazilian waxer
Carla Dunlap, American bodybuilding champion.
Carla Dziwoki, Australian netball player
Carla J. Easton, Scottish singer-songwriter
Carla Emery DeLong, American author
Carla Estrada, Latin American telenovela producer
Carla Fracci, ballet dancer and actress
Carla Gallardo (born 1999), Spanish long-distance runner
Carla Garapedian, documentary filmmaker
Carla Gavazzi, Italian operatic soprano
Carla Geurts, freestyle swimmer
Carla Giuliano, Italian politician
Carla Gravina, Italian film actress
Carla Gugino, American actress
Carla Hall, American chef
Carla Harryman, American poet, essayist, and playwright
Carla Anderson Hills, American lawyer
Carla Howell, President of the Center For Small Government
Carla Humphries, commercial model and actress in the Philippines
Carla Jimenez, American television and film actress
Carla Kelly, American romance writer
Carla Khan, Pakistan squash player
Carla Kihlstedt, American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist
Carla Körbes, Brazilian ballet dancer
Carla Laemmle, American actress
Carla Lane, pseudonym of Romana Barrack, an English television writer
Carla Lehmann, Canadian film and television actress
Carla Lockhart (born 1985), British politician
Carla MacLeod, retired Canadian national women's hockey player
Carla Marins, Brazilian actress
Carla McGhee, American basketball player
Carla Speed McNeil, American science fiction writer, cartoonist, and illustrator
Carla Mendonça, English actress
Carla Molema, Dutch darts player
Carla Moreno, Brazilian triathlete
Carla Morrison, Mexican singer, songwriter and guitarist
Carla Overbeck, American soccer player
Carla Padilla (born 1988), Bolivian footballer
Carla Padilla Ramos (born 1969), Mexican politician
Carla Qualtrough (born 1971), Canadian politician and former paralympian
Carla Quevedo (born 1988), Argentinian actress and designer
Carla Quint (born 1972), Dutch water polo player
Carla Rahal, Bulgarian actress
Carla Rebecchi, Olympic bronze medalist in field hockey
Carla Rhodes, American ventriloquist, comedian and musician
Carla Rueda Cotito, Peruvian volleyball player
Carla Ruocco (born 1973), Italian politician
Carla Ryan, professional cyclist from Australia
Carla Sacramento, middle distance runner from Portugal
Carla J. Shatz, American neurobiologist
Carla Sozzani, Italian art dealer
Carla Stovall, politician and former Attorney General of Kansas
Carla Suárez Navarro, Spanish tennis player
Carla Swart, South African cyclist
Carla Thomas, Queen of Memphis Soul
Carla Tuzzi, retired Italian hurdler
Carla Ulbrich, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author
Carla Werner, singer and songwriter from New Zealand
Carla White, American jazz vocalist
Carla Witte (1889–1943), German-Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and teacher
Carla Woodcock (born 1998), English actress
Carla Yules (born 1996), Indonesian beauty queen

Carla Zampatti, fashion designer and businesswoman

Fictional characters

Carla Connor, character from the British soap opera, Coronation Street
Carla Crozier, character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
Carla Espinosa, character from Scrubs
Carla Gray, character on One Life to Live
Carla Gunderson, young female Spix's Macaw character from animated movie Rio 2
Carla Mitchell, character from the British soap opera, EastEnders
Carla Tortelli, waitress on the TV show Cheers
Carla Veloso, Cars series characters Female Auto racing World Grand Prix sports fiction Cars 2 (2011)
Carla von Lahnstein, character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love)

Other

Hurricane Carla, Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1961

People

Fictional characters

Other

See also

References