first name
CHARITY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 28,979 people named Charity, 66.4% reported their origin as White, 20% as Black and 5.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Charity peaked in 1975, when 1,428 babies got the name.
At least 35,557 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Charity by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #496. The largest share of babies named Charity, 32.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Charity is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Charity has been most common in Utah (2.3×), Tennessee (2.1×), and Alabama (1.9×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.09×).
30,024 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Charity
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Charity, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Charity ranks #18,419 of 156,621, with 1,486 people. See Charity as a last name
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