Chasity
Chasity was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,578 among girls’ names; 24,437 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,700 Americans named Chasity and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 27 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chasity by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chasity?
#4,578 among girls’ names, 2025
Chasity fell from #1,497 in 2015 to #4,578 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 85.7 to 18.7 per million.
935 babies in 1976, the peak
Chasity peaked in 1976, when 935 girls were given it, #253 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,578 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,055 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,794 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,325 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,491 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,666 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 92 | #2,058 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 96 | #2,029 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,844 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 117 | #1,780 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 153 | #1,497 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 137 | #1,578 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 168 | #1,383 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 188 | #1,273 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 190 | #1,258 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 240 | #1,042 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 246 | #1,053 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 282 | #955 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 321 | #870 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 370 | #748 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 321 | #806 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 367 | #728 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 351 | #728 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 467 | #567 | 0.26 |
| 2001 | 508 | #526 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 547 | #492 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 606 | #443 | 0.34 |
| 1998 | 569 | #455 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 532 | #472 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 544 | #459 | 0.31 |
| 1995 | 607 | #428 | 0.35 |
| 1994 | 702 | #370 | 0.39 |
| 1993 | 705 | #361 | 0.39 |
| 1992 | 706 | #363 | 0.38 |
| 1991 | 755 | #343 | 0.40 |
| 1990 | 704 | #373 | 0.37 |
| 1989 | 720 | #356 | 0.39 |
| 1988 | 706 | #352 | 0.40 |
| 1987 | 662 | #359 | 0.38 |
| 1986 | 618 | #377 | 0.36 |
| 1985 | 703 | #337 | 0.41 |
| 1984 | 688 | #336 | 0.41 |
| 1983 | 692 | #331 | 0.41 |
| 1982 | 732 | #330 | 0.43 |
| 1981 | 725 | #326 | 0.43 |
| 1980 | 840 | #296 | 0.51 |
| 1979 | 887 | #274 | 0.55 |
| 1978 | 759 | #309 | 0.50 |
| 1977 | 770 | #309 | 0.50 |
| 1976 | 935 | #253 | 0.64 |
| 1975 | 724 | #313 | 0.50 |
| 1974 | 618 | #351 | 0.42 |
| 1973 | 392 | #466 | 0.27 |
| 1972 | 185 | #753 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,548 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,452 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chasity a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chasity has been given almost only to girls: 23 boys in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chasity: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chasity, and how old are they?
23,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 24,437 Americans ever recorded as Chasity. The median Chasity alive today is 37 years old; half are between 27 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 19,224 people named Chasity (19,203 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,616 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,840 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,180 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Chasity born?
The states with the most babies named Chasity are Texas, Georgia and Tennessee, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 2,356 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 1,750 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Tennessee | 1,677 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| North Carolina | 1,459 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Kentucky | 1,288 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Louisiana | 1,279 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Alabama | 1,134 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Ohio | 990 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 917 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 915 | not ranked | 3.4× |
Where Chasity is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chasity is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1970 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chasity with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,507 babies since 1880, Chasity is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 30 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chasity
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chasity and names like it
- Compare Chasity and ChastityBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChasity peaked in 1976.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chasity since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Chasity.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chasity alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.