Unisex name · since 2015
Charming
Charming has 71 recorded births since 2015 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2021 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,699 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,623 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 71
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Charming currently ranks #11623 among unisex names in America, with 71 babies recorded since 2015.
Charming has 71 recorded births among boys since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #11623 as of the latest data, more common than 17% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #19,699 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #11,623 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 71 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Charming ranks #19,699 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,623 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 71 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #19,699 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,623 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 71
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Charming's 71 recorded births place it above 56.51% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Charming compares
71 21st percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Charming's all-time total is 81% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Charming | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 71 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 34 | 22,252 |
Charming's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Charming's SSA record in two at 2021 and the more recent half accounts for 56% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 44%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2017, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2021 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Charming popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Charming popularity over time - girls
5 total births recorded since 2020 (Charming as girls' name)
Charming by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (46 births, 65% of the file).
2020s was Charming's strongest decade.
46 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.
Charming births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
25 births
- 2020s
2020s
46 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 46 births (65% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Charming draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.