Chassity
Feminine · “chastity”
The doubled s pulls the name away from the word it came from. Chastity is a virtue and looks like one on the page; Chassity looks like a name and nothing else. Whether that is the point of the respelling cannot be known, but it is unmistakably the effect.
How old is the name Chassity?
Chassity first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Chassity alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 2,200 people named Chassity are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chassity most popular?
Chassity peaked in 1988, reaching #1465 nationally. See the whole 1988 chart.
Where it comes from
From chastity to Chassity
The story of Chassity
The name's arrival in modern American records has a date and a household. A television couple who were among the most watched performers in the country gave their daughter the name at the end of the nineteen-sixties, on a show that ran in front of enormous audiences, and the name appears in the charts within a few years. Virtue names had been out of fashion for the better part of a century at that point; this one came back not through religion but through celebrity, which is a considerably stranger route for a word meaning moral purity to take. The respelled versions follow immediately behind, as respellings always do once a name is being heard rather than read.
Meaning
chastity
The word is the English abstract noun, from a Latin adjective meaning pure or morally clean. It belongs to the family of virtue names — Faith, Hope, Prudence, Temperance — that English-speaking Protestants gave to daughters from the sixteenth century onward.
How the name formed
- chastity
- Chastity
- Chassity
Pronouncing Chassity
CHAS-ti-tee
Three syllables with the stress at the front. The doubled s changes nothing audible, so this spelling and the standard one are indistinguishable in speech.
Nicknames for Chassity
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1972
- Most girls named
- 198893 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1465reached in 1988
- Change vs 2023
- +40.0%7 in 2024, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Chassitys among us
people named Chassity are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Chassity sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The spelling puts distance between the child and the abstract noun.
- The rhythm is brisk and the name is easy to say quickly.
- It is far rarer than the standard spelling while sounding identical.
- It is still the word for a virtue, and adults will hear that whatever the spelling does.
- Chastity is the standard form and this one will be corrected for life.
- It is closely tied to the decades of its rise and reads as belonging to them.
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Frequently asked
- How many Chassitys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Chassity are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Chassity in 2025?
- Chassity is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Chassity with classmates?
- Chassity will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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