Charisma
Charisma was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,125 among girls’ names; 3,815 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,740 Americans named Charisma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charisma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charisma mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charisma is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
From the common noun charisma, from Ancient Greek χάρισμα (khárisma).
/kəˈɹɪzmə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charisma?
#5,125 among girls’ names, 2025
Charisma fell from #3,067 in 2015 to #5,125 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.8 to 15.6 per million.
196 babies in 2000, the peak
Charisma peaked in 2000, when 196 girls were given it, #1,058 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,125 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,131 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,292 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,180 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,692 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,296 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,734 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,257 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,495 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,875 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,067 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,590 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,910 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,268 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 84 | #2,242 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,276 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,153 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,300 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 115 | #1,840 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 151 | #1,469 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 140 | #1,496 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,499 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 139 | #1,424 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 166 | #1,213 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 173 | #1,181 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 196 | #1,058 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 120 | #1,450 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,620 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,966 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,451 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,309 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,322 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,863 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,854 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,723 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,127 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,302 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,985 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,278 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,302 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,366 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,307 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,600 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,573 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,755 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,391 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,439 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,222 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,608 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,750 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,447 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,638 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,314 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,969 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,790 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,885 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charisma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Charisma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Charisma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charisma, and how old are they?
3,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,815 Americans ever recorded as Charisma. The median Charisma alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 3,132 people named Charisma (3,129 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,541 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 362 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 843 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 623 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Charisma born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,394 | 0.9× |
Where Charisma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Charisma is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Charisma with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Charisma
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Charisma and names like it
- Compare Charisma and SeannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCharisma peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charisma since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Charisma: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Charisma.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Charisma alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.