Charity is an English virtue name taken from the Latin caritas and means "charity" or "love", the greatest of the three theological virtues alongside Faith and Hope. The Puritans brought it to colonial America, where it was a common given name through the 18th and 19th centuries. In the United States Charity ranked number 456 in 2000, has been outside the top 1000 for years and stands at number 1981 in 2025 with 97 girls given the name.