Charity

English word name

"charity"

Charity Origin and Meaning

The name Charity is a girl's name of English origin meaning "charity".

Charity is one of the Big Three abstract virtue names, along with Hope and Faith, though far less widely used than the others. But as Faith, Grace and Hope grow more common, some parents are beginning to look at the more unusual three-syllable choices like Verity, Amity, Clarity and Charity, which sound much fresher and also have that pleasingly rhythmic 'y'-ending sound.

In the Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit, there are two sisters named Charity and Mercy, who are known as Cherry and Merry.

In the musical Sweet Charity the title character, Charity Hope Valentine, is an all too charitable girl with a heart of gold. In the novel"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" Charity Burbage is a Muggle Studies teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and in Two Broke Girls there's an Aunt Charity who's not very charitable.

Charity was in the Top 500 in the 1880's and 1890's, remained in the Top 1000 until 1927 when it dropped from sight, then reappeared in 1968. For a period in the 1970's and eighties, Charity was a Top 300 name.

Charity Rank in US Top 1000

# 995 in the US

Charity Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1508 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Charity

• 1508 Nameberry 2025
• 747 Unique 2023

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Famous People Named Charity

• Charity Wakefield English actress
• Charity Shea American actress
• Charity Rahmer American actress
• Charity Edna Adams Earley first black American WACS officer
• Charity Brown (born Phyllis Boltz) Canadian actress
• Charity Kaluki Ngilu Kenyan politician
• Charity Opara Nigerian Olympic runner
• Charity Waciuma Kenyan novelist
• Charity Ogbenyealu Adule Nigerian footballer
• Charity Hallett Barnum wife of American showman P.T. Barnum
• Charity Clarke American revolutionary
• Charity Clarke Moore daughter of American poet Clement C. Moore, who composed "The Night Before Christmas" for her; granddaughter of Charity Clarke

The name Charity in Pop Culture

• Charity Hope Valentine character in musical "Sweet Charity"
• Charity Channing character in TV series "2 Broke Girls"
• Charity Burbage teacher in the "Harry Potter" series
• Charity Dingle a character played by actress Emma Atkins on the British soap "Emmerdale"
• Charity Standish character on American soap "Passions"
• Charity Bazaar character on animated series "Histeria!"
• Charity More character in "Stargazer" by Claudia Gray
• Charity Graff main character in "Cutters Don't Cry" by Christine Dzidrums