Carris
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carris has been given to 38 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% girls, 45% boys all-time.
Babies named Carris, 2011
1 in 732,000
Carris over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Carris over time
In 2011, Carris went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Carris?
Carris had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carris sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carriss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carris was born before 2004 — so the typical Carris is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 76.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 21
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 76.2% of all recorded uses (16).
Is Carris rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2001 (6)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Carris
Carris is not the most common spelling — Carrie is, with 55.4% against Carris's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Carris around the world
Where Carris ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2016#4,763in 2016
- Scotland2005–2008#793in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Carris by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Carris
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carris
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.