Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ''ceorl'' in Old English, which means "free man".
Notable people with the name include:
* Carla (singer), Carla, French singer and former member of the children's music group Kids United
* Carla Abellana, Filipina actress and commercial model
* Carla Azar, drummer and singer for the band Autolux
* 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 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 Mercier, environmental physicist and Nobel Prize Recipient
* 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, Bulgarians, 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 Rosón, character interpreting a rich girl from the popular Spain TV show, ''Elite (TV series)''
* 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 (TV series), 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)
*Carla Yeager, character from the manga and anime ''Attack on Titan
Other
Hurricane Carla, Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1961
See also
*Calla (name)
*Carli (given name)
* Carly (name)
*Charla (name)
* Karla (name)
*Carlia S. Westcott
References
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