girls:
35.3k births since 1880
#733 (87th percentile)
boys:
39 births since 1975
#4547 (1st percentile)
overall:
35.4k births since 1880
#1332 (83rd percentile)
The name Charity is the #1,332 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 35,356 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #733 (87.2% percentile) for all time with 35,317 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,547 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 39 births since 1975.
Charity has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1975 for boys).
The name Charity has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Charity reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 76.1% percentile (ranked #181) with 910 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 910 births per million (ranked 76.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Charity ranks #835 for girls (11.8% percentile) with 67 births per million, which is 7.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Charity reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #657) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Charity".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Charity. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Charity is pronounced as CHEH-rih-tee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHA-rih-tee, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like CH EH1 R IH0 T IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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