girls:
9.7k births since 1969
#1623 (72nd percentile)
overall:
9.7k births since 1969
#2718 (65th percentile)
The name Chastity is the #2,718 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,711 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 64.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,623 (71.6% percentile) for all time with 9,711 births since 1969.
Chastity first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for girls in 1969). Birth data for Chastity is available in 54 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Chastity reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 61.3% percentile (ranked #295) with 475 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 478 births per million (ranked 60.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Chastity ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chastity".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Chastity. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.2% confident that Chastity is pronounced as CHA-stih-tee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHA-stuh-tee, at 43.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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