Chastity
Feminine · “chastity”
Chastity is a Puritan virtue name, and the Latin behind it is about purity in the older and broader sense — castus meant morally clean before it meant anything narrower.
How old is the name Chastity?
Chastity first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Chastity alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 9,400 people named Chastity are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Chastity most popular?
Chastity peaked in 1976, reaching #308 nationally. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From castus to Chastity
The story of Chastity
English Puritans of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gave abstract virtue names in large numbers, and a handful survived. Chastity was rare until the twentieth century, when it returned as part of a broader American revival of the category — given a sharp push in 1969 when a well-known performing couple named their daughter that. It peaked in the mid-1970s.
Meaning
chastity, purity
From the Latin castitas, 'purity' or 'moral cleanness', from castus, 'pure'. It belongs to the family of abstract virtue names — Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Temperance — that Puritan families used and that American naming revived in the twentieth century.
How the name formed
- castus
- castitas
- Chastity
Related forms: Chasity · Chasteté · Castidad
Pronouncing Chastity
CHAS-tit-ee
Three syllables, stress on the first. It is an ordinary English word and is never mispronounced.
Nicknames for Chastity
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
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 1974749 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #308reached in 1976
- Change vs 2022
- +28.6%9 in 2023, from 7
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.
Chastity in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Chasity in English — spelling variant
- Chasteté in French — related form
- Castidad in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Chastitys among us
people named Chastity 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
Chastity 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
- It belongs to a documented and coherent family of English virtue names.
- The Latin sense is broader and less narrow than the modern English word.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- The virtue named is a personal and now contested one, which some families will weigh.
- It is an ordinary English noun.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Chastitys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,400 people named Chastity are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Chastity in 2025?
- Chastity is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Chastity will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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