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Charity
Rank in 2024
#2,045
Born in 2024
95
Peak year
1975 · #183
Origin
English
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 95 girls were named Charity, about 1 in every 16,981.
- It peaked in 1975 with 1,420 babies, ranked #183.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 35,419 girls have been named Charity since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Charity per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.4Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,509 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 733 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,129 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 11,407 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,709 babies, 0.38 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,074 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,091 babies, 0.10 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From charity in the Biblical sense of Christian love; first used by Puritans. In early Christian tradition, Faith, Hope and Charity were the martyred daughters of Saint Sophia. The names, taken from 1 Corinthians 13:13 ("And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity") have been translated and used in many languages. The name of the sura (chapter) is one of several translations of the original Arabic.
- A female given name from English.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Charity, CC BY-SA 4.0.