Charmion

Girls' name

Delight

Charmion has been given to 225 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1970, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Charmion, 1993

1 in 754,000

Charmion over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charmion: meaning, origin, and history

Delight

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charmion means

Charmion means “delight”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Charmion is used in Ancient Greek (Rare).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 225 girls were recorded with the name Charmion between 1895 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,634 in 1895.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Charmion?

Charmion had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 754,000; 5 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only: 1 in 362,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 522,458 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Charmion 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 1993 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 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charmion. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charmions were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charmion was born before 1966 — so the typical Charmion is around 59 today.

Median birth year: 1966; About 59 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 39.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 137; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Charmion 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: —; 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 1970 (14)
Years since peak: 55; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,634; 1895

Spellings of Charmion

Charmion is not the most common spelling — Carmon is, with 26.1% against Charmion's 3.7%.

Carmon26.1%1,586
Charon16.4%1,001
Charmain16.3%995
Carmin14.2%864
Sharion13.1%796
Charmin10.2%621
Charmion3.7%225

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.

Charmion around the world

Where Charmion 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.

South Australia
1975–1975
#448
in 1975

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Charmion 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: #1,634; 1895
Peak year: 1970; 14 that year
First recorded: 1895
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 225
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Charmion

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

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Sibling names for Charmion

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

For a sister

Nicolle Janeen Marlo Lashawn Shonda Jeana Jeanna Trena

For a brother

Judd Douglass Alfonzo Edwardo Shon Brant Scot Darrick

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