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Charisma

#5,125 in 2025Girls' name

Show favor, through χάρισμα

Charisma has been given to 3,815 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #5,125 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 196 recorded.

Babies named Charisma, 2025

1 in 133,000

Charisma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charisma: meaning, origin, and history

Show favor, through χάρισμα

Ancient Greek

What Charisma means

Charisma belongs to the name family reached through Charisma → χάρισμα. Its meaning is “show favor”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the common noun charisma, from Ancient Greek χάρισμα (khárisma).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Charisma (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Charisma is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Charisma comes through Ancient Greek χάρισμα.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include χάρισμα.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Charisma is pronounced /kəˈɹɪzmə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,815 girls were recorded with the name Charisma between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 196 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,058 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,296 in 2020 to #5,125 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,067 in 2015 to #5,125 in 2025.

How common is Charisma?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,125
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charisma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charisma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charismas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charisma was born before 2001 — so the typical Charisma is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,815
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2000s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (1,392).

Is Charisma rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−994
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,829
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,058
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.8%
Peak was 2000 (196)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,058
2000

Spellings of Charisma

Charisma is not the most common spelling — Clarissa is, with 30.1% against Charisma's 2.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Charisma is used

Across 1910–2025, Charisma was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 67,422 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Charisma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charisma around the world

Where Charisma ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Canada
    2001–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1972–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Charisma

People whose public names include Charisma, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Charisma by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,125
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,829
Best rank ever
#1,058
2000
Peak year
2000
196 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,815
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Charisma

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Charisma

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Charisma, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AzucenaNehaAnalisaJamiaJulisaJackelynJackelineKameronAleaZakiyaBrynneMarlen

Sibling names for Charisma

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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