Given name
Charmaine
“charming and delightful woman”
Charmaine is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “charming and delightful woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “charming and delightful woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Charmaine has a related form in Charmian. The history of Charmian gives this family its wider story. Charmian is an attendant of Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare took the name from Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, giving it a documented route from classical biography to the stage.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Charmaine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15,395
- 20 boys · 15,375 girls
- Most popular year
- 1952
- 619 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −32%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 17 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 619 in 1952. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 15,412 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Charmaine’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Charmaine has a diminutive in Chacha. Charmaine has a related form in Charmayne. Charmaine has a related form in Charmain.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Charmaine
- Jake ZyrusFilipino singerborn 1992
- Charmaine ShehHong Kong actressborn 1975
- Charmaine CrooksCanadian athlete and administratorborn 1962
- Charmaine HowellJamaican athletics competitor (born 1975)
- Charmaine Hooperassociation football playerborn 1968
- Charmaine PereiraNigerian writer and feminist scholarborn 1958
- Charmaine Reidbadminton playerborn 1973
- Charmaine GilgeousAntigua and Barbuda sprinterborn 1971
- Charmaine FongHong Kong singerborn 1980
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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