Charmaine

Where Charmaine comes from

20th century variant of Charmian, or coinage from the noun charm with the -aine ending as in Elaine and Germaine.
— Wiktionary's entry for Charmaine
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #3,187 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Peak, #331
    619 babies named Charmaine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #577.
  4. 1962
    Charmaine Crooks born
    Canadian athlete and administrator
  5. 1975
    Charmaine Sheh born
    Hong Kong actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
  • Charmaine Sheh · Hong Kong actress, born 1975
  • Charmaine Crooks · Canadian athlete and administrator, born 1962
  • Charmaine Howell · Jamaican athletics competitor, born 1975
  • Charmaine Hooper · association football player, born 1968
  • Charmaine Pereira · Nigerian writer and feminist scholar, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.