THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Charity
Charity is recorded as a female given name in Tagalog and Cebuano. The source gives a linguistic connection through English, specifically the form Charity.
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ˈt͡ʃaɾiti/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˌt͡ʃaː.ɾɪˈt̪ɪ]Standard-Tagalog
- /ˈtsaɾiti/no palatal assimilation
- [ˌt͡saː.ɾɪˈt̪ɪ]no palatal assimilation
Cha · ri · ty3 source divisions
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Charity.
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Charity (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
CebuanoEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Charity, from charity.
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Charity (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
From charity in the Biblical sense of Christian love; first used by Puritans. In early Christian tradition, Faith, Hope and Charity were the martyred daughters of Saint Sophia. The names, taken from 1 Corinthians 13:13 ("And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity") have been translated and used in many languages. The name of the sura (chapter) is one of several translations of the original Arabic.
A female given name from English.
Wiktionary: Charity (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
2
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Charity in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Charity
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Charita·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Charito♀Short form of Charo
- Chalita·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Chanita·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Charie♀English form: Charie
- Charina·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Charing♀Short form of Charie and Charito
- Charlito·Recorded Philippine given-name form
What rhymes with Charity?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Charity further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Charity (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Charity (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Charity (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.