Chastity
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #10,312
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 746 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,711since 1969
Chastity over time
Rank among girls' names. Chastity has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 |
| 2011 | #3,603 | 43 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 |
| 2009 | #4,677 | 31 |
| 2008 | #3,222 | 52 |
| 2007 | #2,822 | 64 |
| 2006 | #2,186 | 88 |
| 2005 | #2,140 | 86 |
| 2004 | #1,999 | 92 |
| 2003 | #2,144 | 81 |
| 2002 | #1,791 | 100 |
| 2001 | #1,476 | 127 |
| 2000 | #1,225 | 162 |
| 1999 | #1,088 | 183 |
| 1998 | #1,156 | 163 |
| 1997 | #1,362 | 126 |
| 1996 | #1,186 | 152 |
| 1995 | #1,126 | 157 |
| 1994 | #1,018 | 182 |
| 1993 | #881 | 219 |
| 1992 | #992 | 192 |
| 1991 | #894 | 219 |
| 1990 | #916 | 209 |
| 1989 | #905 | 203 |
| 1988 | #824 | 221 |
| 1987 | #946 | 172 |
| 1986 | #861 | 192 |
| 1985 | #720 | 239 |
| 1984 | #756 | 214 |
| 1983 | #702 | 243 |
| 1982 | #630 | 285 |
| 1981 | #630 | 283 |
| 1980 | #579 | 319 |
| 1979 | #469 | 428 |
| 1978 | #503 | 383 |
| 1977 | #406 | 510 |
| 1976 | #308 | 746 |
| 1975 | #327 | 680 |
| 1974 | #311 | 749 |
| 1973 | #380 | 544 |
| 1972 | #675 | 220 |
| 1971 | #1,772 | 50 |
| 1970 | #2,043 | 40 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Chastity! It came in at #5,974, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2020, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Chastity is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#212 · 1 in 1,115
- Kentucky#225 · 1 in 1,257
- North Carolina#226 · 1 in 1,156
- Louisiana#262 · 1 in 1,251
- Alabama#272 · 1 in 1,450
Best ever in a state: #101 in Kentucky, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #212 | 25 | 1 in 1,115 |
| Kentucky | #225 | 19 | 1 in 1,257 |
| North Carolina | #226 | 28 | 1 in 1,156 |
| Louisiana | #262 | 22 | 1 in 1,251 |
| Alabama | #272 | 15 | 1 in 1,450 |
| Arkansas | #293 | 8 | 1 in 1,573 |
| West Virginia | #298 | 6 | 1 in 1,966 |
| South Carolina | #336 | 9 | 1 in 1,895 |
| Indiana | #351 | 14 | 1 in 2,485 |
| Mississippi | #362 | 8 | 1 in 1,917 |
| Ohio | #364 | 24 | 1 in 2,873 |
| Missouri | #372 | 11 | 1 in 2,787 |
| Kansas | #387 | 5 | 1 in 2,687 |
| Oklahoma | #440 | 6 | 1 in 2,834 |
| Virginia | #452 | 8 | 1 in 3,480 |
| Georgia | #473 | 10 | 1 in 3,225 |
| Illinois | #475 | 21 | 1 in 3,376 |
| Maryland | #490 | 5 | 1 in 3,651 |
| Florida | #500 | 13 | 1 in 3,386 |
| New York | #568 | 24 | 1 in 4,097 |
| Texas | #592 | 25 | 1 in 4,136 |
| Pennsylvania | #687 | 9 | 1 in 7,334 |
| Michigan | #767 | 7 | 1 in 8,221 |
| California | #965 | 17 | 1 in 9,019 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Chastity
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Biggest jump: 1,097 spots in 1972 (#1,772 → #675)
- Biggest drop: 141 spots in 1986 (#720 → #861)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1976 at #308 (746 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1972–1993
- Highest: 1 in 1,959 girls born in 1974 were named Chastity (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,287 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #308 in 1976, was only 1 in 1,964 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.8% of all girls named Chastity (4,350) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #5,974 (1969) | #5,974 |
| 1970s | 4,350 | #308 (1976) | #719 |
| 1980s | 2,371 | #579 (1980) | #755 |
| 1990s | 1,802 | #881 (1993) | #1,062 |
| 2000s | 883 | #1,225 (2000) | #2,368 |
| 2010s | 273 | #3,603 (2011) | #5,499 |
| 2020s | 25 | #10,292 (2021) | #10,949 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Chastity in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 4,000 of them was named Chastity, which outranked 95.6% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.