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Caridad

#15,368 in 2025Girls' name

Charity

Caridad has been given to 1,759 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #15,368 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Caridad, 2025

1 in 663,000

Caridad over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caridad: meaning, origin, and history

Charity

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caridad means

Caridad means “charity”, associated with caridad.

Origin, language, and formation

Caridad is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charity.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Caridad is pronounced /kaɾiˈdad/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,759 girls were recorded with the name Caridad between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,582 in 1967.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Caridad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,368
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caridad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caridad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caridads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caridad was born before 1977 — so the typical Caridad is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,695
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (478).

Is Caridad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
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Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
8.5%
Peak was 1971 (59)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,582
1967

Spellings of Caridad

Caridad is not the most common spelling — Carina is, with 71.0% against Caridad's 7.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Caridad is used

Across 1910–2025, Caridad was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 45,372 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 50,000
  4. 4Hawaii1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caridad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caridad around the world

Where Caridad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1930–1966
    #1,612
    in 1966

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Caridad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,368
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,582
1967
Peak year
1971
59 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,759
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Caridad

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CarlenaCarlitaCarminaCarlotaCarlinaCaralynCaraleeCarlynnCarlinCarriganCarolaCarsenCaralineCarmynCarmineCarlineCarminCarolyneCarolinCaressaCarlynCarmelinaCarsynCartier

Sibling names for Caridad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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