How Many People Are Named Charmaine?

12,521

people named Charmaine are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 27,296 people in the US has this name

Based on 15,395 babies named Charmaine in Social Security records from 1913 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,144

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,178

See the top 100

Peak Year

1952

619 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: shahr-MAYN
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Meaning unknown, perhaps a combination of CHARMIAN or the English word charm with the aine suffix from LORRAINE. It was (first?) used for a character in the play 'What Price Glory' (1924), which was made into a popular movie in 1926.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Charmaine in English. Counting Charmaine and these spellings together, about 14,106 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Charmaine (99.9%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Charmaine alive today is about 53 years old, and 53% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 40 and 67 in 2025.

Under 30 956
7.6%
30 to 59 6,576
52.5%
60 and over 4,990
39.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Charmaine first appears in the records in 1913 and was given most often in 1952, to 619 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1913 to 2024

🏆 Rank History

Charmaine has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #330, in 1952.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#330 (1952)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#498 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Charmaine alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Charmaine were born in California than in any other state: about 1,381 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Charmaine was given 8.5 times as often in Hawaii, 3.2 times in Louisiana and 2.4 times in Illinois.

California 1,381
Illinois 1,069
Pennsylvania 998
New York 920
Louisiana 648
Ohio 568
Michigan 565
Florida 368
Texas 364
Hawaii 278
Virginia 269
Wisconsin 264
New Jersey 242
Maryland 215
Georgia 194
North Carolina 167
Indiana 132
District of Columbia 126
Missouri 123
South Carolina 100
Arizona 71
Colorado 68
Washington 68
New Mexico 58
Kentucky 47
Mississippi 46
Alabama 38
Tennessee 35
Massachusetts 22
Minnesota 20
Kansas 13
Iowa 13
Oregon 12
Utah 12
Montana 10
West Virginia 9
Nevada 5
Connecticut 4
Alaska 4

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