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Chastity

Girls' name

Pure

Chastity has been given to 9,711 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1974, with 749 recorded.

Babies named Chastity, 2023

1 in 368,000

Chastity over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chastity: meaning, origin, and history

Pure

English

What Chastity means

Chastity means “pure”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chastity is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃæs.tɪ.ti/ for Chastity.

Origin, language, and formation

Chastity is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,711 girls were recorded with the name Chastity between 1969 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 749 in 1974; its best national rank was #308 in 1976.

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 Chastity?

Chastity had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 178,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chastity 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 2023 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 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chastity. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chastitys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chastity was born before 1981 — so the typical Chastity is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,711
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (4,350).

Is Chastity 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
Not ranked then
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
0%
Peak was 1974 (749)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#308
1976

Spellings of Chastity

Chastity is not the most common spelling — Charity is, with 45.4% against Chastity's 12.4%.

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 Chastity is used

Across 1910–2025, Chastity was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 19,932 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 7,143
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 7,692
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 8,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 10,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 10,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 11,111
  7. 7Alabama1 in 12,500
  8. 8Indiana1 in 12,500

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. Chastity has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chastity around the world

Where Chastity 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2003
    #2,681
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1980–1980
    #634
    in 1980

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Chastity

People whose public names include Chastity, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chastity 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
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Best rank ever
#308
1976
Peak year
1974
749 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
9,711
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chastity

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

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Names with a curve like Chastity

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chastity, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Chastity

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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