Chastity
Chastity is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 308th, in 1976.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1974749 births
- Best rank
- #308in 1976
- Since 1969
- 9,711people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,711 girls have been named Chastity in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 749 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 749 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 1970s alone account for 45%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1974, its biggest year
Chastity was the 311th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1974 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Heather and Angela. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Chastity
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nakiapeak 1974
- Carisapeak 1977
- Jamillahpeak 1975
- Keishapeak 1977
- Brandepeak 1974
- Errinpeak 1977
- Keeshapeak 1977
- Keshapeak 1974
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.