Salote is the Tongan form of Charlotte — from the Germanic karl (free man) — meaning "free woman." Queen Sālote Tupou III of Tonga (1900-1965) reigned for 47 years and was beloved across the Pacific.
Salote is widely used across Tonga and the Tongan diaspora.
Salote does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Salote reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.