Charity Forename
Approximately 667,558 people bear this name
Charity Forename Definition:
A female name. Old French charité, from Latin caritatem. Like other names of abstract qualities this came into use as a christian name after the Reformation, and was fairly common in the 17th C. Faith, Hope, and Charity were sometimes given as names to triplets.
Read More About This ForenameCharity Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 100% | 276,046 | 1:643 | 90 |
| Zambia | - | 97,649 | 1:162 | 12 |
| Malawi | 100% | 75,873 | 1:226 | 28 |
| Kenya | 100% | 65,354 | 1:709 | 138 |
| Ghana | 99% | 37,139 | 1:727 | 170 |
| United States | 100% | 31,090 | 1:11,661 | 1,180 |
| Uganda | 98% | 22,260 | 1:1,840 | 283 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 19,906 | 1:775 | 138 |
| Philippines | 99% | 14,050 | 1:7,545 | 1,110 |
| South Africa | 98% | 7,241 | 1:7,531 | 1,364 |
| Rwanda | - | 2,901 | 1:3,920 | 752 |
| Tanzania | 84% | 2,846 | 1:18,548 | 1,941 |
| Sudan | - | 2,578 | 1:14,665 | 1,593 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 2,253 | 1:9,592 | 1,165 |
| Botswana | 98% | 1,857 | 1:1,176 | 203 |
| England | 100% | 1,447 | 1:38,426 | 1,982 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,425 | 1:23,251 | 2,003 |
| Egypt | 82% | 759 | 1:121,082 | 5,236 |
| Namibia | - | 751 | 1:3,201 | 547 |
| Togo | - | 494 | 1:14,654 | 1,924 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 400 | 1:1,452 | 272 |
| Swaziland | - | 359 | 1:3,622 | 724 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 350 | 1:88,036 | 9,509 |
| India | 100% | 348 | 1:3,491,029 | 150,858 |
| Poland | - | 283 | 1:134,371 | 2,707 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 221 | 1:76,480 | 4,420 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 136 | 1:52,588 | 4,682 |
| Ireland | 100% | 130 | 1:35,719 | 1,358 |
| Papua New Guinea | 95% | 108 | 1:75,484 | 7,133 |
| Afghanistan | 83% | 95 | 1:343,405 | 6,868 |
| Australia | - | 67 | 1:203,845 | 5,065 |
| Liberia | 96% | 66 | 1:66,849 | 3,251 |
| New Zealand | - | 55 | 1:82,474 | 3,753 |
| Mexico | 100% | 54 | 1:2,298,971 | 12,850 |
| China | - | 53 | 1:25,774,637 | 60,738 |
| Marshall Islands | 97% | 51 | 1:1,005 | 114 |
| Germany | 100% | 50 | 1:1,933,558 | 11,368 |
| Qatar | 92% | 49 | 1:48,359 | 6,334 |
| Malaysia | 96% | 46 | 1:661,955 | 26,444 |
| Spain | 100% | 44 | 1:1,057,499 | 8,917 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 43 | 1:242,588 | 9,234 |
| Thailand | 84% | 41 | 1:1,708,922 | 50,966 |
| Wales | 100% | 41 | 1:75,471 | 2,139 |
| Indonesia | - | 38 | 1:6,788,518 | 244,640 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Sweden | 100% | 31 | 1:317,997 | 9,503 |
| DR Congo | 50% | 27 | 1:2,734,356 | 59,996 |
| Scotland | 100% | 27 | 1:198,162 | 3,518 |
| Belgium | 100% | 26 | 1:441,925 | 7,537 |
| Singapore | 100% | 24 | 1:261,961 | 9,116 |
| Chile | 100% | 23 | 1:765,531 | 7,771 |
| Hong Kong | - | 21 | 1:369,177 | 3,937 |
| Iceland | - | 20 | 1:18,301 | 1,312 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 18 | 1:1,320,538 | 43,414 |
| Brazil | - | 17 | 1:12,602,127 | 143,895 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 16 | 1:1,887,618 | 33,763 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 15 | 1:90,761 | 6,535 |
| Norway | 100% | 14 | 1:366,595 | 7,406 |
| Denmark | - | 13 | 1:434,577 | 7,147 |
| Panama | 100% | 12 | 1:325,546 | 10,471 |
| South Korea | - | 12 | 1:462,035 | 12,149 |
| France | 100% | 10 | 1:6,647,034 | 24,227 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| Benin | 100% | 9 | 1:1,175,094 | 27,937 |
| Italy | 88% | 8 | 1:7,632,761 | 27,464 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 7 | 1:2,324,761 | 25,689 |
| Guam | - | 7 | 1:22,949 | 2,164 |
| Algeria | - | 6 | 1:6,362,787 | 10,855 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 6 | 1:16,566 | 2,341 |
| Belize | 100% | 5 | 1:70,862 | 4,575 |
| Japan | - | 5 | 1:25,597,211 | 50,433 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 5 | 1:407,999 | 22,262 |
| Finland | 80% | 4 | 1:1,370,796 | 11,464 |
| Russia | - | 4 | 1:36,058,426 | 83,389 |
| Senegal | - | 4 | 1:3,645,339 | 17,621 |
| Suriname | 100% | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 4 | 1:2,053,374 | 18,217 |
| Haiti | - | 3 | 1:3,575,651 | 30,510 |
| Argentina | - | 2 | 1:21,386,622 | 29,627 |
| Austria | - | 2 | 1:4,257,100 | 13,469 |
| Israel | 100% | 2 | 1:4,201,459 | 30,777 |
| Micronesia | - | 2 | 1:53,250 | 1,276 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Saint Lucia | - | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Vietnam | - | 2 | 1:46,311,556 | 7,272 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 1 | 1:61,299 | 2,487 |
| Colombia | 100% | 1 | 1:47,778,926 | 95,497 |
| Congo | - | 1 | 1:5,009,205 | 37,978 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 1 | 1:4,767,948 | 27,206 |
| Czechia | - | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Ecuador | - | 1 | 1:17,726,919 | 31,775 |
| Estonia | - | 1 | 1:1,315,380 | 8,883 |
| Greece | - | 1 | 1:10,934,548 | 22,228 |
| Hungary | 100% | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Iraq | - | 1 | 1:35,017,859 | 22,933 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Jamaica | - | 1 | 1:2,883,227 | 22,340 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Nicaragua | - | 1 | 1:6,018,336 | 34,175 |
| Oman | - | 1 | 1:4,108,667 | 12,526 |
| Peru | 100% | 1 | 1:31,791,454 | 110,866 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Turkey | - | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
| Vanuatu | - | 1 | 1:261,792 | 1,604 |
Charity (8,652) may also be a surname.
Charity Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Old French charité, from Latin caritatem. Like other names of abstract qualities this came into use as a christian name after the Reformation, and was fairly common in the 17th C. Faith, Hope, and Charity were sometimes given as names to triplets. Cherry is sometimes used as a pet-name for Charity (e.g. in The Beaux’ Stratagem 1707, and Nicholas Nickleby 1838).
(For etymology, see Charissa.) Charlotte Yonge is not to be denied: ‘A few ancient Greeks had names compounded of Charis...; but it was reserved for Christianity to give the word its higher sense. Charis, through the Latin caritas, grew to be the Christian’s Charity... And it was thus that, after the Reformation, Charity, (often) contracted into Cherry, became an English Christian name.’ Helena Swan adds: ‘ It was very common in England in the 17th century, amongst the Puritans, and John Bunyan, in his Pilgrim’s Progress, places Charity in the “Palace Beautiful”.’ Like Faith and Hope, it is still a frequent f. name.
A female name which explains itself. See Hope.
Greek (feminine) - Good-will.
A Latin name, meaning: Love in its manifestation.
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