Charmaine

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Charmaine is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. In Jamaica it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 2.5K◐
  • JMJamaica1 in 3.4K
  • PHPhilippines1 in 5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈16K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
373 ●

257K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.7K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

A female given name originating as a coinage.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Charmaine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#65733,21626K rec.—26KCharmaine122
AU Australia#65918,58116K rec.—5Charmaine169
GB United Kingdom#84117,32614K rec.—3Charmaine170
US United States—15,351167K rec.1 in 22K15KCharmaine373
ZA South Africa#22513,72713K rec.——Charmaine108
CA Canada—5,6914.9K rec.—1Charmaine142
SG Singapore#3141,8541.6K rec.——Charmaine99
JM Jamaica#501,3841.4K rec.——Charmaine20
MY Malaysia—1,2831.2K rec.——Charmaine58
DE Germany—919881 rec.—listedCharmaine72
NL Netherlands—705458 rec.1 in 25K705Charmaine46
IN India—254495 rec.—listedCharmaine68

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English267K79%
  • Spanish19K6%
  • 10K3%
  • Indonesian4K1%
  • Swahili3.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English266,50379%
Spanish19,2496%
10,0953%
Indonesian3,9941%
Swahili3,6141%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Charmaine is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name28K records spelled Charmaine15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, South Africa, France

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Chårmāîñê, Charmaíne, Charmainé, Chärmäine, Chârmâïnè

  • Swahili given name4.3K records spelled Charmaine5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Charmainé

  • Thai given name1.0K records spelled Charmaine7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Philippines, United States, South Africa

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Shaman, ชาร์แมน, ชารแมน, ชาริแมน

  • Russian given name324 records spelled Charmaine4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Philippines

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Чармэйн

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Charmaine is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Variante de Carmine/Carmina; interprétation liée au chant ou à Carmélide, avec connotations de peau, séparation et orphelin.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Nom moderne, possiblement influencé par Carmen/Charmant.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, From the settlement of 1918

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  • English: possibly a variant of CHARMIAN , influenced by names such as GERMAINE , but more probably an invented name based on the vocabulary word charm + - aine as in LORRAINE . It is not found before 1920, but enjoyed some popularity in the 1960s due to The Bachelors' hit song of this name.

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0200400600800192019401960198020002020619 · 1952

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Charmaine in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1913–2024
Yearrecords
19135
19145
19159
19187
19195
192510
19268
192774
1928265
1929113
1930124
193193
1932106
193382
193494
193585
193690
193784
193880
193984
194097
194189
1942101
1943107
1944106
1945102
1946104
1947130
1948128
1949132
1950152
1951192
1952619
1953430
1954351
1955343
1956333
1957340
1958293
1959317
1960261
1961299
1962291
1963275
1964261
1965244
1966236
1967220
1968183
1969222
1970255
1971239
1972291
1973306
1974269
1975268
1976325
1977298
1978230
1979249
1980245
1981205
1982201
1983235
1984184
1985182
1986188
1987184
1988215
1989227
1990240
1991256
1992265
1993188
1994161
1995121
199696
199794
199883
199977
200068
200148
200249
200334
200437
200527
200626
200730
200829
200928
201024
201122
201220
201317
201419
201518
201615
201713
201814
201917
202013
202113
202210
20239
202417

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 105 years between 1913–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Charmaine Neville, b. 1956Charmaine Crooks, b. 1962Charmaine Hooper, b. 1968Charmaine Sinclair, b. 1971Charmaine Craig, b. 1971Charmaine Reid, b. 1973Charmaine Sheh, b. 1975Charmaine Dragun, b. 1978Charmaine Fong, b. 1980Jake Zyrus, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 54 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Charmaine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202226K#314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,865
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—705#1,634
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—426#3,554
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202586#508
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—74#9,347
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202061#1,865
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—57#7,765
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025202550#83
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—48#13,950
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—44#2,826
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199244—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 435 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Charmaine?
We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Charmaine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Charmaine have the most bearers?
Charmaine is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled charmaine.
How common is Charmaine compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Charmaine is the 657th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Charmaine a male or female name?
Charmaine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Charmaine mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Charmaine” — the 657th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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