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Karis

#2,030 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Karis has been given to 6,848 babies in the U.S. since 1935. In 2025 it ranked #2,030 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 310 recorded.

Babies named Karis, 2025

1 in 35,300

Karis over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karis: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karis means

Karis is a given name.

The naming story behind Karis

Wikidata records Karis as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q61432215, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,744 girls were recorded with the name Karis between 1935 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 310 in 2012; its best national rank was #861 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,446 in 2020 to #2,030 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,256 in 2015 to #2,030 in 2025.

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Karis between 1971 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2001; its best national rank was #5,287 in 1971.

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 Karis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,030
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karis 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kariss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karis was born before 2008 — so the typical Karis is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,715
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Choose a decade

2010s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (2,254).

Is Karis 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
+136
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−584
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−774
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.3%
Peak was 2012 (310)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#861
2012

Spellings of Karis

Karis is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 24.3% against Karis's 0.17%.

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 Karis is used

Across 2016–2025, Karis was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 12,009 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

219 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 5,263
  2. 2Georgia1 in 6,250
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 6,667
  4. 4Maryland1 in 7,692
  5. 5Virginia1 in 7,692
  6. 6Texas1 in 10,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 11,111
  8. 8Alabama1 in 12,500

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.

Karis around the world

Where Karis 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1984–2023
    #482
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2016
    #440
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2015–2015
    #896
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Karis

People whose public names include Karis, 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.

Karis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,030
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 584
Best rank ever
#861
2012
Peak year
2012
310 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,744
Count in 2025
94

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,287
1971
Peak year
2001
8 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karis

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

KarmaKarieKarolKarriKarlyKarliKarmenKarleyKarsynKarrieKarterKarlieKaronKarenaKarleeKarolynKarelyKarimeKarlynKarrisKarmynKarymeKarsonKaran

Names with a curve like Karis

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

NatalyaHeidyJocelynnAnnelieseCarleighAnnalieseMiyaCambriaKyndallKylahAnaliseGwyneth

Sibling names for Karis

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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