Charita

Girls' name

Latinate form of Charity

Charita has been given to 1,406 babies in the U.S. since 1941. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1981, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Charita, 2009

1 in 764,000

Charita over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charita: meaning, origin, and history

Latinate form of Charity

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charita means

Charita is a latinate form of Charity.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Charita is used in Various.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charity.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,406 girls were recorded with the name Charita between 1941 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,693 in 1983.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Charita?

Charita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009: 1 in 764,000; 5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only: 1 in 367,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 529,609 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Charita 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Charitas were born

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

Median birth year: 1977; About 48 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 33.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 21.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,381; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (473).

Is Charita 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1981 (65)
Years since peak: 44; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,693; 1983

Spellings of Charita

Charita is not the most common spelling — Charity is, with 19.7% against Charita's 0.78%.

Charity19.7%35,518
Christa18.2%32,843
Chasity13.5%24,414
Carina9.1%16,494
Charla4.4%8,026
Charissa2.8%5,140
Marita2.8%5,088
Sarita2.8%5,046

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 Charita is used

Across 1910–2025, Charita was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 306,269 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Illinois1 in 100,000
2Louisiana1 in 100,000
3Michigan1 in 100,000
4North Carolina1 in 100,000
5Alabama1 in —
6Florida1 in —
7Georgia1 in —
8Ohio1 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. Charita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Charita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,693; 1983
Peak year: 1981; 65 that year
First recorded: 1941
Last recorded: 2009
All-time count: 1,406
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Charita

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

Chanita Chaquita Charlita Charnita Chakita Charlyn Chasidy Chanell Chance Chaney Charlea Chanie Charish Chayse Carlita Charlynn Channel Charly Clarita Chalita Chantay Chany Adelita Charm

Sibling names for Charita

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

For a sister

Shamika Kandi Fawn Joi Jessi Jenelle Latrice Sharonda

For a brother

Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Jamaal Wilfredo Antwan Donnell Ashley

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