Charm
Charm was given to 154 girls in 2025, #1,415 among girls’ names; 1,285 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Charm and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charm by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Charm?
#1,415 among girls’ names, 2025
Charm rose from #5,157 in 2015 to #1,415 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 95.8 per million.
166 babies in 2025, the peak
Charm peaked in 2025, when 166 babies were given it (154 girls, #1,415 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 120 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 154 | #1,415 | 95.8 |
| 2024 | 120 | #1,701 | 74.1 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,160 | 54.8 |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,921 | 63.4 |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,781 | 69.5 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,912 | 61.9 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,405 | 44.1 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,693 | 37.6 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,206 | 29.0 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,026 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,157 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,796 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,042 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,939 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,183 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,431 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,755 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,963 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,274 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,413 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,050 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,862 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,668 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,511 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,038 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,911 | 5.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,516 | 2.7 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,174 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,861 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,520 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,292 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,888 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,708 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,798 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,106 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,203 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,951 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,182 | 4.3 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,412 | 2.9 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,870 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charm a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,285 Americans recorded as Charm, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 154 girls and 12 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Charm: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charm, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,285 Americans ever recorded as Charm. The median Charm alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 645 people named Charm (581 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 561 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Charm rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 26 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 158 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,040 |
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 Charm born?
The states with the most babies named Charm are Florida, Louisiana and Georgia, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 18 | #877 | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 15 | #304 | 5.0× |
| Georgia | 15 | #682 | 1.9× |
| New York | 11 | #1,250 | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #719 | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 10 | #564 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,254 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 9 | #973 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,042 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,163 | 0.3× |
Where Charm is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Charm is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1937 it was given 5.0 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 Charm 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 Charm
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 Charm and names like it
- Compare Charm and AlaiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCharm peaked in 2025.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charm since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Charm.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Charm alive today were born 2013-2025.
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