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    The surname Charity

    A surname, carried by 1,619 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C630

    Charity: #17,428 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Charity #17,428, 1,619 people Charity: #17,428 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Charity #17,428, 1,619 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Charity is more common than 89.3% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,619 people named Charity in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 190,701 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,442.

    #17,428
    rank among US surnames
    1,619
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.3%
    change since 2000 (was #17,895)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,419Servantes1,620190,584
    #17,428Heppner1,619190,701
    #17,432Marzano1,618190,819

    Who is named Charity

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    70% of people named Charity identified as Black (not Hispanic), 21% as white (not Hispanic) and 5.7% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 70%
    • White (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Two or more races 5.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Charity

    Charity has the Soundex code C630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C630.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Charity?
    1,619 people in the United States had the surname Charity in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 190,701 Americans. It ranked 17,428th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Charity?
    In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Charity identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 21% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Charity getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,442 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,619 in 2010, up 12%.