Charity is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Charity is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,119 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,118 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 29,873 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Charity. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Charity annualy. This means that there have been girls named Charity who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Charity have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Charity even more than any other time: in 1975, it holds its present record of #177 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Charity was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Charity has never been ranked higher than #177. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,583 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 117 girls named Charity were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Charity were born, there have been 485 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Charity has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Charity and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Charity, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Tiger
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Charity
Charity
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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H
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R
I
T
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
H
A
R
I
T
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Charity sounds like this:
