Charmaine
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Charmaine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 70th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 2.8K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Charmaine counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Charmaine | 21 |
| ZA South Africa | #248 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Charmaine | 114 |
| PH Philippines | #670 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 26K | Charmaine | 129 |
| US United States | — | 15,412 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Charmaine | 426 |
| GB United Kingdom | #798 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 3 | Charmaine | 221 |
| AU Australia | #624 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 5 | Charmaine | 179 |
| SG Singapore | #409 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Charmaine | 101 |
| JM Jamaica | #70 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Charmaine | 21 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Charmaine Nevilleb. 1956USAmerican singer
- Charmaine Crooksb. 1962CACanadian athlete and administrator
- Charmaine Hooperb. 1968CAassociation football player
- Charmaine Sinclairb. 1971GBEnglish pornographic film actress
- Charmaine Craigb. 1971USAmerican actress
- Charmaine Reidb. 1973CAbadminton player
- Charmaine Shehb. 1975CNHong Kong actress
- Charmaine Dragunb. 1978AUAustralian journalist (1978–2007)
- Charmaine Fongb. 1980TWHong Kong singer
- Jake Zyrusb. 1992PHnot in their usual nameFilipino singer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #1,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 61 | #1,865 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2004 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2011 | 3 | #810 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2001 | 3 | #343 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 1 | #839 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1979 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Charmaine mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Charmaine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Charmaine in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charmaine.
- 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 are other forms of the name Charmaine?
- In the etymology graph, Sharmaine is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Charmaine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,412 people named Charmaine in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Charmaine compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Charmaine is the 70th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charmaineThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 70th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.