girls:
15.4k births since 1913
#1231 (78th percentile)
boys:
20 births since 1975
#4566 (0th percentile)
overall:
15.4k births since 1913
#2112 (73rd percentile)
The name Charmaine is the #2,112 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,378 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 72.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,231 (78.5% percentile) for all time with 15,358 births since 1913. For boys, it ranks #4,566 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 1975.
Charmaine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for girls and 1975 for boys). Birth data for Charmaine is available in 104 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (104 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Charmaine has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Charmaine reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 53.4% percentile (ranked #322) with 325 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 325 births per million (ranked 53.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Charmaine ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Charmaine reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #657) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charmaine".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Charmaine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.0% confident that Charmaine is pronounced as shahr-MAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAHR-mayn, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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