Chastity
A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning purity, virtue of sexual restraint.
Babies a year
31
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Chastity by the numbers
Chastity was given to 31 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 749 babies in 1974, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Chastity. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Chasitypurity; a misspelling of Chastity108 in the US (2017)
- Chassitypurity; a misspelling of Chastity17 in the US (2017)
- Charitycharity; virtue name from virtue of Christian charity192 in the US (2017)
- Chassidypious or devout; a form of Chasidah48 in the US (2017)
- Chasidy24 in the US (2017)
- Chastin10 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean purity
Like Chastity, each of these has purity in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Chastity
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