Charm
#1,413 for girls in 2025, 154 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 94.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 154 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,216since 1937
Charm over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,413 | 154 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #1,698 | 120 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #2,156 | 88 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #1,918 | 104 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #1,780 | 114 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #1,908 | 100 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #2,400 | 74 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #2,677 | 64 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | — | |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | — | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | — | |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | — | |
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| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | — | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
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| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
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| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | — | |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
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| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
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| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Charm! It came in at #3,800, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1938–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Charm is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#295 · 1 in 1,091
- Missouri#556 · 1 in 2,430
- Georgia#676 · 1 in 3,014
- Tennessee#707 · 1 in 3,207
- Florida#864 · 1 in 4,820
Best ever in a state: #284 in Louisiana, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #295 | 15 | 1 in 1,091 |
| Missouri | #556 | 10 | 1 in 2,430 |
| Georgia | #676 | 15 | 1 in 3,014 |
| Tennessee | #707 | 10 | 1 in 3,207 |
| Florida | #864 | 18 | 1 in 4,820 |
| Ohio | #959 | 9 | 1 in 5,252 |
| Illinois | #1,014 | 8 | 1 in 5,541 |
| North Carolina | #1,138 | 7 | 1 in 6,640 |
| New York | #1,235 | 11 | 1 in 7,121 |
| Texas | #2,210 | 9 | 1 in 17,838 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Charm
- 285 spots since 2024 (#1,698 → #1,413)
- 495 spots since 2020 (#1,908 → #1,413)
- 3,714 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #1,413)
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 2025 at #1,413 (154 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,437 girls born in 2025 were named Charm (0.01%)
- 55.9% of all girls named Charm (680) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 6 | #3,800 (1937) | #3,800 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 30 | #4,123 (1952) | #5,274 |
| 1960s | 17 | #5,696 (1960) | #6,028 |
| 1970s | 22 | #8,061 (1979) | #9,016 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 15 | #8,805 (1999) | #10,976 |
| 2000s | 90 | #7,679 (2009) | #10,443 |
| 2010s | 356 | #2,400 (2019) | #4,756 |
| 2020s | 680 | #1,413 (2025) | #1,812 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Charm in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 10,437 of them was named Charm, which outranked 91.8% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 142,340 of them was named Charm, which outranked 51.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #6,446Zephan13
- #6,446Zhane13
- #6,446Zoe13
- #6,803Charm12
- #6,803Aaditya12
- #6,803Aaiden12
- #6,803Abdimalik12
- #7,194Abba11
- #7,194Abdou11
- #7,194Abdulla11
Tied with 390 names at #6,803; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.