Chastity
Chastity was last recorded in 2023, when 9 babies were given it; 9,711 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,330 Americans named Chastity and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 34 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chastity by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chastity mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chastity is “a female given name from English from the virtue chastity.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chastity?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,488, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
749 babies in 1974, the peak
Chastity peaked in 1974, when 749 girls were given it, #311 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | #10,488 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,511 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,458 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,583 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,857 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,498 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,165 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,614 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,915 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,347 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 30 | #4,739 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,618 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,136 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,710 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,229 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,830 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,191 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,142 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,001 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,144 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 100 | #1,791 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,478 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 162 | #1,223 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 183 | #1,088 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 163 | #1,156 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 126 | #1,360 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 152 | #1,188 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 157 | #1,123 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 182 | #1,017 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 219 | #881 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 192 | #992 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 219 | #893 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 209 | #915 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 203 | #902 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 221 | #825 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 172 | #946 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 192 | #861 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 239 | #721 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 214 | #756 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 243 | #702 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 285 | #630 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 283 | #630 | 0.17 |
| 1980 | 319 | #579 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 428 | #471 | 0.27 |
| 1978 | 383 | #503 | 0.25 |
| 1977 | 510 | #406 | 0.33 |
| 1976 | 746 | #308 | 0.51 |
| 1975 | 680 | #327 | 0.47 |
| 1974 | 749 | #311 | 0.51 |
| 1973 | 544 | #380 | 0.37 |
| 1972 | 220 | #675 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,775 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,050 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,056 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chastity a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chastity has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chastity: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chastity, and how old are they?
9,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 9,711 Americans ever recorded as Chastity. The median Chastity alive today is 45 years old; half are between 34 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 7,541 people named Chastity (7,519 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,408 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 4,410 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 197 |
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 Chastity born?
The states with the most babies named Chastity are Texas, New York and North Carolina, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 819 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 613 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 480 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 464 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 453 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 428 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 413 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 382 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Louisiana | 363 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Florida | 357 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Chastity is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chastity is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1969 it was given 2.2 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 Chastity 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 36,912 babies since 1880, Chastity is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Chastity (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Chastity
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 Chastity and names like it
- Compare Chastity and ChasityBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChastity peaked in 1974.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chastity since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Chastity: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Chastity.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Chastity alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.