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Purity

#4,725 in 2025Girls' name

English word name: purity

Purity has been given to 379 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #4,725 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Purity, 2025

1 in 114,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Purity: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: purity

English

What Purity means

Purity is documented as an English vocabulary word adopted as a personal name. Its immediate reference is the word purity; the cited entry discusses the word history separately from its use as a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Purity is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 379 girls were recorded with the name Purity between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,725 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,025 in 2020 to #4,725 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,195 in 2015 to #4,725 in 2025.

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 Purity?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,725
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Purity 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Purity. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Puritys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Purity was born before 2016 — so the typical Purity is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
379
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (135).

Is Purity 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
+681
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,300
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,470
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (29)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,725
2025

Spellings of Purity

Purity is not the most common spelling — Verity is, with 61.0% against Purity's 12.5%.

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 Purity is used

Across 1910–2025, Purity was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 965,264 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Purity has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Purity around the world

Where Purity 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.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2025
    #4,142
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Purity by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,725
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,300
Best rank ever
#4,725
2025
Peak year
2025
29 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
379
Count in 2025
29

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

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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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