Caris
Caris was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,205 among girls’ names; 1,215 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Caris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caris?
#7,205 among girls’ names, 2025
Caris fell from #3,263 in 2015 to #7,205 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.0 to 9.3 per million.
61 babies in 2013, the peak
Caris peaked in 2013, when 61 girls were given it, #2,810 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,205 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,655 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,415 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,193 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,994 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,629 | 25.4 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,285 | 28.6 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,572 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,708 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,533 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,263 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,442 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,810 | 34.8 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,598 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,312 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,984 | 32.1 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,971 | 31.6 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,595 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,099 | 29.1 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,183 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,871 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,927 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,358 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,955 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,808 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,233 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,628 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,768 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,345 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,209 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,126 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,179 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,012 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,168 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,300 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,517 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,039 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,553 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,862 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,648 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,881 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,774 | 5.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,631 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,240 | 3.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,242 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caris has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Caris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caris, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,215 Americans ever recorded as Caris. The median Caris alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,214 people named Caris (1,126 women and girls, 88 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,066 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Caris rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 129 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 582 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 481 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Caris born?
The states with the most babies named Caris are Texas, California and North Carolina, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 103 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 79 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Caris with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Caris?
Caris is a less common spelling of Karis: SSA has recorded 1,215 Caris and 6,848 Karis since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,669 babies since 1880, Caris is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 160 babies (9.4%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caris
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caris and names like it
- Compare Caris and KarisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCaris peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caris since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Caris.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caris alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.