Name: Charity
Gender: Female
Usage: Charity is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Charity are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Charity is: Charity, Kindness.
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Numerology of the first name Charity: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Charity is ranked on the 1,415th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 330000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.005% of the population. The name Charity has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Charity for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Charity is an English feminine given name derived from the English word charity. It was used by the Puritans as a virtue name. An earlier form of the name, Caritas, was an early Christian name in use by Romans.
Charity is also the usual English form of the name of Saint Charity, an early Christian child martyr, who was tortured to death with her sisters Faith and Hope. She is known as Agape in Biblical Greek and as Caritas in Church Latin and her name is translated differently in other languages.
Faith, Hope and Charity, the three theological virtues, are names traditionally given to triplet girls, just as Faith and Hope remain common names for twin girls. One example were the American triplets Faith, Hope and Charity Cardwell, who were born in 1899 in Texas and were recognized in 1994 by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest lived triplets.
Charity has never been as popular a name in the United States as Faith or Hope. It ranked in the top 500 names for American girls between 1880 and 1898 and in the top 1,000 between 1880 and 1927, when it disappeared from the top 1,000 names until it reemerged among the top 1,000 names in 1968 at No. 968. It was most popular between 1973 and 1986, when it ranked among the top 300 names in the United States. It has since declined in popularity and was ranked at No. 852 in 2011.
This is a list of people and characters named Charity:
English: from the vocabulary word, denoting originally the Christian's love for his fellow man (Latin caritās, from carus dear). In spite of St Paul's words ‘and now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity’ (1 Corinthians 13: 13), Charity is now rarely used as a given name in comparison with the shorter Faith and Hope.
Cognates: Spanish: Caridad. Portuguese: Caridade. Finnish: Karita.
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