Charity
Charity is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 95 births. Its best rank was 183rd, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 950.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19751,420 births
- Best rank
- #183in 1975
- Since 1880
- 35,419people given the name
The story in the numbers
35,419 girls have been named Charity in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 1,420 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1970s alone account for 27%. It has spent 92 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Charity | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 323 | |
| 1890s | 400 | |
| 1900s | 416 | |
| 1910s | 658 | |
| 1920s | 573 | |
| 1930s | 385 | |
| 1940s | 456 | |
| 1950s | 519 | |
| 1960s | 1,036 | |
| 1970s | 9,718 | |
| 1980s | 8,212 | |
| 1990s | 4,980 | |
| 2000s | 4,751 | |
| 2010s | 2,382 | |
| 2020s | 610 |
In 1975, its biggest year
Charity was the 183rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Charity
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jerushapeak 1975
- Amiepeak 1976
- Aimeepeak 1977
- Holliepeak 1983
- Salinapeak 1977
- Lizapeak 1973
- Sachapeak 1977
- Charapeak 1982
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.