Charmaine
Fewer than 30 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it this century: most Poles will never meet a Charmaine. The root is Latin, and the name simply means "charm".
Charmaine Pronunciation
Charmaine is pronounced khahr-mah-EE-ne (/xarmaˈinɛ/).
What Charmaine means
Where Charmaine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Charmaine traces back to the Latin `carmen`, a word for song and for the spoken charm a song could work. From that same root English drew the word `charm`, which is the plain meaning under the name. So the sense of charm here runs older than the name itself.
The name reached English speakers through the cinema. In 1926 the composers Ernö Rapée and Lew Pollack wrote a waltz called "Charmaine" for the Fox war film "What Price Glory," premiered that November. It was named for a character, Charmaine de la Cognac, played by Dolores del Río. The tune became a standard and fixed the name in English ears.
Charmaine has no standard Polish diminutive. On a class register it stands alone. A teacher reading it at roll call meets a name with no Kasia or Zosia to shorten it into.
The meaning stays near the surface. Charm, in Polish `urok`, in Polish `czar`: the Latin `carmen` held all of that before English narrowed it down. That is why the name still reads as charm.
How many people are named Charmaine
1 in 777374 women in Poland is named Charmaine. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7618 among female names.
Charmaine as a middle name
Charmaine is a first name for 29 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2254th, between Charity (11) and Cleopatra (11).
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#2252 Candelaria11
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#2253 Charity11
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#2254 Charmaine11
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#2255 Cleopatra11
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#2256 Corinna11