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Sharmaine

Girls' name

Variant of Charmaine

Sharmaine has been given to 1,673 babies in the U.S. since 1949. 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 1992, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Sharmaine, 2012

1 in 732,000

Sharmaine over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sharmaine: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Charmaine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sharmaine means

Sharmaine is a variant of Charmaine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sharmaine is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃɑɹ.ˈmeɪn/ and /ʃɑː.ˈmeɪn/ for Sharmaine.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sharmaine → Charmaine → Charmian. The family’s meaning is “joy”, recorded in English with the source elements khárma.

Origin, language, and formation

Sharmaine is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charmaine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,668 girls were recorded with the name Sharmaine between 1949 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 77 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,849 in 1992.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Sharmaine between 1990 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1990; its best national rank was #9,283 in 1990.

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 Sharmaine?

Sharmaine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sharmaine 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 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sharmaine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sharmaines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sharmaine was born before 1985 — so the typical Sharmaine is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,661
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (496).

Is Sharmaine 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (77)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,849
1992

Spellings of Sharmaine

Sharmaine is not the most common spelling — Charmaine is, with 70.8% against Sharmaine's 7.7%.

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 Sharmaine is used

Across 1910–2025, Sharmaine was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 285,308 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Hawaii1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 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. Sharmaine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sharmaine around the world

Where Sharmaine 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
    1996–2011
    #4,049
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    1994–1994
    #554
    in 1994
  • Canada
    1993–1999
    #1,999
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1950–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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

Sharmaine 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
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Best rank ever
#1,849
1992
Peak year
1992
77 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
1,668
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,283
1990
Peak year
1990
5 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sharmaine

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

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Sibling names for Sharmaine

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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