Karla

Karla or Carla is a female given name .

Origin and variants

The name is the feminine form of the male given name Karl , meaning 'the free one'.

Variants of Karla are:

Derivatives:

Short forms (all also for Carol and Caroline )

There is no known saint of the name, but there are some saints with the name Karl, whose name days can also apply to Karla and the variants:

cath .: January 7th - Sl. Charles of Sezia , Franciscan in Rome, martyr
Catholic, ev .: January 28th - St. Charlemagne , Roman emperor, empire founder
Catholic: March 2nd - St. Charles the Good of Flanders, Martyr of Peace
Catholic: June 3rd - St. Karl Lwanga , Ugandan martyr
cath .: August 12th - Sl. Karl Leisner , German martyr in the Dachau concentration camp
Catholic: August 24th - St. Karl von Borango , Austrian religious, missionary, martyr on Saipan
ev .: October 20th - Karl Segebrock , German-Baltic missionary and martyr
cath .: October 21 - Sl. Charles I of Austria-Hungary , last emperor of Austria-Hungary
Catholic: November 4th - St. Charles Borromeo , cardinal, archbishop of Milan and counter-reformer

Karla Bonoff (* 1951), American singer-songwriter
Karla Borger (* 1988), German volleyball and beach volleyball player
Karla Crome (born 1989), British actress
Karla Nina Diedrich (* 1983), German actress
Karla Erbová (* 1933), Czech poet
Karla Fohrbeck (* 1942), German cultural scientist, cultural journalist and cultural politician
Karla Höcker (1901–1992), German writer, journalist and musician
Karla Homolka (* 1970), Canadian serial killer
Karla Kienzl (1922–2018), Austrian luge athlete
Karla Kirkegaard (* 1954), American virologist and geneticist
Karla Kowalski (* 1941), German architect
Karla Linke (* 1960), GDR swimmer
Karla Poewe (* 1941), German-Canadian anthropologist and historian
Karla Raveh (1927–2017), Holocaust survivor and author
Karla Runkehl (1930–1986), German actress
Karla Schefter (* 1942), construction assistant
Karla Schneider (* 1938), German writer
Karla Souza (born 1985), Mexican actress
Karla Trippel (* 1964), German actress
Karla Woisnitza (* 1952), German painter and graphic artist

Carla Bissi (* 1954), Italian pop singer, see Alice (Italian singer)
Carla Apuzzo (* 1951), Italian film producer, screenwriter and director
Carla Bley (* 1936), American jazz musician
Carla Bodendorf (* 1953), former GDR athlete
Carla Bruni (* 1967), French singer
Carla Calò (1926–2019), Italian actress
Carla Del Ponte (* 1947), Swiss lawyer and diplomat
Carla Ernst (1867–1925), Austrian theater actress
Carla Fracci (* 1936), Italian prima ballerina
Carla Gugino (* 1971), American actress
Carla Hagen (* 1931), German stage and film actress
Carla Juri (* 1985), Swiss actress
Carla Kihlstedt (* 1971), American musician (violin and other instruments, vocals, composition)
Carla Laemmle (1909–2014), American actress and dancer of German descent
Carla Mann (1881–1910), German actress
Carla Marangoni (1915-2018), Italian gymnast
Carla Nelte (* 1990), German national badminton player
Carla Ortiz (* 1976), Bolivian actress
Carla Overbeck (* 1968), American soccer player
Carla Reemtsma (* 1998), German climate protection activist
Carla Sacramento (* 1971), Portuguese athlete
Carla Suárez Navarro (* 1988), Spanish tennis player
Carla Thomas (* 1942), American soul singer
Carla White (1951-2007), American jazz singer
Carla Zijlstra (* 1969), Dutch speed skater

Karla Kolumna, reporter in the Bibi Blocksberg and Benjamin Blümchen radio drama series
Karla , Soviet master spy and adversary of George Smiley in some books by John le Carré

Karla (1965), banned GDR film, director: Herrmann Zschoche
Karla (2006), a film about the Canadian serial killer Karla Homolka by Joel Bender with Laura Prepon and Misha Collins in the lead roles