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Carla does not appeal to me at all. I don't much like Carl, Karl, Karel etc and I'd never even think of feminising them. Charlotte is very nineteenth-century, probably because of too many novels with a Charlotte in them from that period. It sounds better in French; in English it's hard to overlook the fact that it not only rhymes with 'harlot', it contains it. Charlene would please me more: I knew a very nice one at school, which helps.