Chastity

Where Chastity comes from

The dictionaries list Chastity as a given name — a female given name from English from the virtue chastity — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #5,974 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Peak, #308
    746 babies named Chastity — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #579.
  4. 1987
    Chastity Lynn born
    American pornographic actress
  5. 1989
    Chastity Reed born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English from the virtue chastity.
Namesakes
  • Chastity Lynn · American pornographic actress, born 1987
  • Chastity Reed · American basketball player, born 1989

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.