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Charmin

Girls' name

Joy, through Charmian

Charmin has been given to 621 babies in the U.S. since 1955. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Charmin, 1991

1 in 779,000

Charmin over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charmin: meaning, origin, and history

Joy, through Charmian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charmin means

Charmin belongs to the name family reached through Charmin → Charmian. Its meaning is “joy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Charmin is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charmian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 621 girls were recorded with the name Charmin between 1955 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1972; its best national rank was #1,726 in 1972.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Charmin?

Charmin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 779,000
5 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 375,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
539,676 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charmin 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 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charmin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charmins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charmin was born before 1971 — so the typical Charmin is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
621
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (294).

Is Charmin 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1972 (51)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,726
1972

Spellings of Charmin

Charmin is not the most common spelling — Carmen is, with 58.5% against Charmin's 0.25%.

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 Charmin is used

Across 1910–2025, Charmin was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 797,808 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Tennessee1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

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. Charmin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charmin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,726
1972
Peak year
1972
51 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
621
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Charmin

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

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Sibling names for Charmin

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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