Carla staat niet in de Bijbel — de wortel betekent simpelweg “man”

Carla is not in the Bible. It is the feminine of Carlo, Carlos and Carl — all of them from the Germanic karl, a word that meant simply man. Which makes Carla a sister to Charlotte and Caroline, and gives it the same plain, unglamorous root. There is something in that worth saying. What does the name Carla mean? Man, at root — a free man rather than a serf, in the later medieval sense that attached to the word.…