Charman
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Charman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from OFr char, car ‘car, cart’ + OE mann ‘carter, carrier’; first attested William le Charman 1293 AssSt.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 55K
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OFr char, car ‘car, cart’ + OE mann ‘carter, carrier’; first attested William le Charman 1293 AssSt
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Charman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Charman | 162 |
| AU Australia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 1 | Charman | 88 |
| US United States | 237 | 1 in 1.4M | 264 | Charman | 158 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Charman | 61 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Charman | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Charman | 33 |
| NO Norway | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Charman is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A man who does the work of a charwoman.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of charma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, charming
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roy Charmanb. 1930GBEnglish sound engineer (1930-1990)
- Janet Charmanb. 1954NZNew Zealand poet (1954— )
- Kate Charmanb. 1967GBBritish actress TV and gardener
- Suw Charman-Andersonb. 1971GBBritish journalist, consultant and blogger
- Jamie Charmanb. 1982AUAustralian rules footballer
- Luke Charmanb. 1997GBassociation football player
- Tony CharmanGBBritish medical researcher
- Dan J. CharmanGBresearcher
- William N. CharmanUSresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 264 | #69,428 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 237 | #80,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 226 | #88,273 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,500 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Charman mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr char, car ‘car, cart’ + OE mann ‘carter, carrier’; first attested William le Charman 1293 AssSt Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Charman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Charman in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charman.
- How common is the name Charman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 237 people named Charman in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Charman?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charmanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Charman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.