What is "carla"

Carla is the feminized version of Carl or Charles, from ceorl in Old English, which means "free man". Notable people with the name include:

• Carla Abellana, a Filipina actress and commercial model
• Carla Azar, a drummer and singer for the band Autolux.
• Carla Balingit a beauty queen from the Philippines
• Carla Barbarinoa retired Italian sprinter and hurdler
• Carla Beurskens a prominent long distance runner from the Netherlands
• Carla Bley, an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader.
• Carla Bonner, an Australian actress
• Carla Borrego, a Jamaican basketball and netball player
• Carla Boyd, a retired Australian basketball player with two Olympic medals.
• Carla Bozulich, the lead singer, lyricist and founder of The Geraldine Fibbers and Evangelista.
• Carla Bruni, an Italian-French singer, songwriter and former model.
• Carla Cassidy, an American romance novelist.
• Carla Cook, a jazz vocalist.
• Carla Cortijo, a Puerto Rican basketball player
• Carla Couto, a Portuguese football striker
• Carla Del Poggio, an Italian cinema, theatre, and television actress
• Carla Del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor at two United Nations international criminal law tribunals.
• Carla Dunlap, an American bodybuilding champion.
• Carla Dziwoki, an Australian netball player
• Carla Emery DeLong, an author born in Los Angeles
• Carla Estrada, one of the foremost telenovela producers of Latin America.
• Carla Fracci, a ballet dancer and actress
• Carla Garapedian, a documentary filmmaker
• Carla Gavazzi, an Italian operatic soprano
• Carla Geurts, a freestyle swimmer
• Carla Gravina, an Italian film actress.
• Carla Gugino, an American actress.
• Carla Hall, an American chef
• Carla Harryman, an American poet, essayist, and playwright
• Carla Anderson Hills, an American lawyer
• Carla Howell, President of the Center For Small Government.
• Carla Humphries, a commercial model and actress in the Philippines.
• Carla Jimenez, an American television and film actress.
• Carla Kelly, another American romance writer
• Carla Khan, a Pakistan squash player
• Carla Kihlstedt, an American violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist.
• Carla Körbes, a Brazilian ballet dancer
• Carla Laemmle, an American actress
• Carla Lane, pseudonym of Romana Barrack, an English television writer.
• Carla Lehmann, a Canadian film and television actress
• Carla MacLeod, a retired Canadian national women's hockey player
• Carla Marins, a Brazilian actress
• Carla McGhee, an American basketball player
• Carla Speed McNeil, an American science fiction writer, cartoonist, and illustrator
• Carla Mendonça, an English actress
• Carla Molema, a Dutch darts player
• Carla Moreno, a Brazilian triathlete
• Carla Morrison, a Mexican singer, songwriter and guitarist.
• Carla Overbeck, an American soccer player
• Carla Rahal, a Bulgarian actress
• Carla Rebecchi, an Olympic bronze medalist in field hockey
• Carla Rhodes, an American ventriloquist, comedian and musician
• Carla Rueda Cotito, a Peruvian volleyball player
• Carla Ryan, a professional cyclist from Australia
• Carla Sacramento, a middle distance runner from Portugal.
• Carla J. Shatz, an American neurobiologist
• Carla Sozzani, an Italian art dealer
• Carla Stovall, a politician and former Attorney General of Kansas
• Carla Ingvarsdottir Stanford, a former model and professional dressage rider from Australia
• Carla Suárez Navarro, a Spanish tennis player.
• Carla Swart, a South African cyclist
• Carla Thomas, the Queen of Memphis Soul.
• Carla Tuzzi, a retired Italian hurdler
• Carla Ulbrich, an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author
• Carla Werner, a singer and songwriter from New Zealand
• Carla White, an American jazz vocalist
• Carla Zampatti, a fashion designer and businesswoman.
• Carla Estefania Gomez Gutierrez, a famous Lawyer from Columbia, who aided Pablo Escobar

Carla is a feminine given name.

Carla may also refer to: