Meaning and history
Charmaine is a name of uncertain meaning, possibly formed from Charmian or the English word charm combined with the aine suffix found in Lorraine. It was first used, or perhaps first recorded, for a character in the play What Price Glory (1924), which became a popular film in 1926.
20052005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: 26 births, rank #5,233
2007: 30 births, rank #4,808
2008: 29 births, rank #5,013
2009: 28 births, rank #5,097
20102010: 24 births, rank #5,602
2011: 22 births, rank #5,935
2012: 20 births, rank #6,341
2013: 17 births, rank #7,031
2014: 19 births, rank #6,451
20152015: 18 births, rank #6,721
2016: 15 births, rank #7,602
2017: 13 births, rank #8,299
2018: 14 births, rank #7,762
2019: 17 births, rank #6,698
20202020: 13 births, rank #7,969
2021: 13 births, rank #8,024
2022: 10 births, rank #9,680
2023: 9 births, rank #10,312
20242024: 17 births, rank #6,642
Charmaine moved from #779 to #983 for girls between 1992 and 1993. Its highest annual birth count came in 1952, with 619 births.