Charity

Where Charity comes from

From charity in the Biblical sense of Christian love; first used by Puritans. In early Christian tradition, Faith, Hope and Charity were the martyred daughters of Saint Sophia. The names, taken from 1 Corinthians 13:13 ("And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity") have been translated and used in many languages. The name of the sura (chapter) is one of several translations of the original Arabic.
— Wiktionary's entry for Charity
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #288 among girls — 29 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1952
    Charity Ngilu born
    Kenyan politician
  3. 1972
    Charity Opara born
    Nigerian sprinter
  4. 1975
    Peak, #183
    1,420 babies named Charity — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1975
    The comeback
    Back to #183 after sinking to #1,648 in 1954.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Charity Opara · Nigerian sprinter, born 1972
  • Charity Ngilu · Kenyan politician, born 1952
  • Charity Wakefield · British actress, born 1980
  • Charity Ogbenyealu Adule · Nigerian association football player, born 1993
  • Charity Williams · Canadian rugby sevens player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.