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Charis

#3,137 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Chares

Charis has been given to 4,415 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #3,137 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 127 recorded.

Babies named Charis, 2025

1 in 65,000

Charis over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Charis: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Chares

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Charis means

Charis is a feminine form of Chares.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Charis → Chares. The family’s meaning is “grace, kindness”, recorded in the naming reference for Chares.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chares.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,347 girls were recorded with the name Charis between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 127 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,664 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,507 in 2020 to #3,137 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,197 in 2015 to #3,137 in 2025.

In the United States, 68 boys were recorded with the name Charis between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2024; its best national rank was #6,194 in 1979.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Charis?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 31,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,137
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Charis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Charis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chariss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Charis was born before 2000 — so the typical Charis is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,187
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Choose a decade

2000s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (971).

Is Charis 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
−312
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−630
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−940
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.2%
Peak was 2006 (127)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,664
2006

Spellings of Charis

Charis is not the most common spelling — Shari is, with 10.5% against Charis's 1.1%.

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.

Where Charis is used

Across 2016–2025, Charis was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 33,074 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2Virginia1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Charis around the world

Where Charis 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2021
    #485
    in 2021
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2017
    #432
    in 2017
  • France
    1998–2004
    #5,477
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Charis

People whose public names include Charis, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Charis in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Charis. Linked forms have their own page here.

Haris

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Charis by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,137
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 630
Best rank ever
#1,664
2006
Peak year
2006
127 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,347
Count in 2025
51

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,062
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,194
1979
Peak year
2024
14 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
68
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Charis

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Charis

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Charis, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DanyaAnnalisaJaynaAnamariaIndiraAliseDalilaKerenMalenaShiraLeanaAllana

Sibling names for Charis

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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