Kharis
#8,113 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kharis has been given to 294 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #8,113 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Kharis, 2025
1 in 255,000
Kharis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kharis?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,113
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kharis sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kharis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Khariss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kharis was born before 2014 — so the typical Kharis is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 289
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (128).
Is Kharis 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
- +595
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +572
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,704
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.18×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 61.9%
- Peak was 2019 (21)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.3% average annual change
Spellings of Kharis
Kharis is not the most common spelling — Kari is, with 23.3% against Kharis's 0.11%.
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.
Kharis around the world
Where Kharis 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 & Wales1998–2025#5,927in 2025
- Scotland1998–2008#650in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Kharis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kharis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kharis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.