Meaning not yet researched.
Charity: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #183 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #183 in 1975; #1,981 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Charity in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,981 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #183.
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Charity: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 girls in 2025. Peak: #183 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 1,420 (1975).
In 2025, 97 US girls were named Charity, making it the 1,981st most common girls’ name of the year, up 62 places from #2,043 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 95 girls named Charity in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #183, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,420. For comparison, it was #1,209 in 2015 and #1,241 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Charity in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 29 babies with the name. In all, 35,557 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 9,741 babies named Charity.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,474 US girls were named Charity; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 197. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,570 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Charity ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #832 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Chariti, Charitie and Charitee are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chat.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chariti (229), Charitie (116), Charitee (47), Chairity (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 6 | #832 | #761 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,096 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,241 | #739 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,432 | #1,458 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,737 | #1,066 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,253 | #1,483 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2022 | 118 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2021 | 134 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 2019 | 184 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 2018 | 189 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 2017 | 197 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 2016 | 197 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 2015 | 206 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 2014 | 247 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 2013 | 261 | #965 | — | — |
| 2012 | 277 | #926 | — | — |
| 2011 | 310 | #848 | — | — |
| 2010 | 315 | #851 | — | — |
| 2009 | 316 | #872 | — | — |
| 2008 | 369 | #790 | — | — |
| 2007 | 439 | #670 | — | — |
| 2006 | 435 | #664 | — | — |
| 2005 | 424 | #655 | — | — |
| 2004 | 508 | #564 | — | — |
| 2003 | 535 | #529 | — | — |
| 2002 | 544 | #506 | — | — |
| 2001 | 574 | #486 | — | — |
| 2000 | 608 | #456 | — | — |
| 1999 | 482 | #525 | — | — |
| 1998 | 476 | #531 | — | — |
| 1997 | 464 | #515 | — | — |
| 1996 | 490 | #487 | — | — |
| 1995 | 495 | #495 | — | — |
| 1994 | 484 | #515 | — | — |
| 1993 | 515 | #488 | — | — |
| 1992 | 485 | #500 | — | — |
| 1991 | 553 | #455 | — | — |
| 1990 | 536 | #458 | — | — |
| 1989 | 568 | #433 | — | — |
| 1988 | 648 | #372 | — | — |
| 1987 | 741 | #330 | — | — |
| 1986 | 856 | #288 | 5 | #6,891 |
| 1985 | 912 | #274 | 5 | #6,687 |
| 1984 | 790 | #303 | — | — |
| 1983 | 813 | #290 | — | — |
| 1982 | 859 | #284 | — | — |
| 1981 | 964 | #255 | 6 | #5,614 |
| 1980 | 1,061 | #243 | — | — |
| 1979 | 1,197 | #219 | 5 | #6,197 |
| 1978 | 1,067 | #232 | 5 | #5,941 |
| 1977 | 1,195 | #211 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,205 | #203 | 5 | #5,736 |
| 1975 | 1,420 | #183 | 8 | #4,004 |
| 1974 | 1,410 | #186 | — | — |
| 1973 | 957 | #260 | — | — |
| 1972 | 583 | #371 | — | — |
| 1971 | 341 | #536 | — | — |
| 1970 | 343 | #546 | — | — |
| 1969 | 234 | #653 | — | — |
| 1968 | 115 | #967 | — | — |
| 1967 | 94 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1966 | 99 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1965 | 86 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1964 | 74 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1962 | 81 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1961 | 106 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1958 | 51 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1957 | 59 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1953 | 56 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1951 | 54 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1950 | 55 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1949 | 53 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1947 | 52 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1946 | 49 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1942 | 42 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1941 | 44 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1936 | 34 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 1935 | 46 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1932 | 48 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1931 | 47 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1929 | 41 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1928 | 53 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1927 | 66 | #917 | — | — |
| 1926 | 51 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1925 | 62 | #946 | — | — |
| 1924 | 70 | #908 | — | — |
| 1923 | 53 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1922 | 57 | #991 | — | — |
| 1921 | 57 | #989 | — | — |
| 1920 | 63 | #915 | — | — |
| 1919 | 84 | #766 | — | — |
| 1918 | 75 | #825 | — | — |
| 1917 | 73 | #807 | — | — |
| 1916 | 79 | #770 | — | — |
| 1915 | 75 | #762 | — | — |
| 1914 | 59 | #750 | — | — |
| 1913 | 68 | #626 | — | — |
| 1912 | 55 | #673 | — | — |
| 1911 | 46 | #637 | — | — |
| 1910 | 44 | #641 | — | — |
| 1909 | 32 | #708 | — | — |
| 1908 | 50 | #511 | — | — |
| 1907 | 47 | #522 | — | — |
| 1906 | 53 | #466 | — | — |
| 1905 | 46 | #499 | — | — |
| 1904 | 44 | #495 | — | — |
| 1903 | 32 | #576 | — | — |
| 1902 | 34 | #561 | — | — |
| 1901 | 34 | #522 | — | — |
| 1900 | 44 | #509 | — | — |
| 1899 | 31 | #537 | — | — |
| 1898 | 50 | #434 | — | — |
| 1897 | 43 | #450 | — | — |
| 1896 | 39 | #462 | — | — |
| 1895 | 40 | #458 | — | — |
| 1894 | 41 | #439 | — | — |
| 1893 | 31 | #488 | — | — |
| 1892 | 35 | #460 | — | — |
| 1891 | 37 | #407 | — | — |
| 1890 | 53 | #351 | — | — |
| 1889 | 36 | #405 | — | — |
| 1888 | 47 | #348 | — | — |
| 1887 | 40 | #339 | — | — |
| 1886 | 38 | #347 | — | — |
| 1885 | 21 | #459 | — | — |
| 1884 | 31 | #359 | — | — |
| 1883 | 29 | #332 | — | — |
| 1882 | 30 | #323 | — | — |
| 1881 | 22 | #348 | — | — |
| 1880 | 29 | #290 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).