Charis
Charis is given to both girls and boys: 51 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,137 among girls’ names and #9,062 among boys’, #5,028 among all names counting both); 4,415 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,180 Americans named Charis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Charis is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.” Its etymology gives the sense “beauty, elegance, charm, grace” (literally).
From Ancient Greek Χάρις (Kháris, literally “beauty, elegance, charm, grace”).
/ˈkeɪɹɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charis?
#3,137 among girls’ names, 2025
Charis fell from #2,197 in 2015 to #3,137 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.2 to 31.7 per million.
133 babies in 2006, the peak
Charis peaked in 2006, when 133 babies were given it (127 girls, #1,664 among girls’ names). The 59 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,137 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,825 | 36.4 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,147 | 32.4 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,869 | 36.0 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,857 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,507 | 42.7 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,936 | 33.4 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,461 | 42.3 |
| 2017 | 87 | #2,187 | 50.4 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,522 | 40.1 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #2,197 | 48.2 |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,910 | 58.8 |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,942 | 58.1 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,033 | 53.9 |
| 2011 | 105 | #1,898 | 59.7 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,773 | 65.3 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,122 | 51.7 |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,095 | 51.3 |
| 2007 | 85 | #2,277 | 44.2 |
| 2006 | 127 | #1,664 | 66.8 |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,805 | 58.4 |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,715 | 61.5 |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,862 | 54.2 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,081 | 45.6 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,074 | 44.4 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,968 | 46.8 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,914 | 46.2 |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,146 | 37.9 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,286 | 33.9 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,176 | 35.4 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,248 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,209 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,831 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,055 | 35.8 |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,243 | 30.9 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,435 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,412 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,293 | 27.0 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,993 | 32.2 |
| 1986 | 54 | #2,002 | 31.5 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,908 | 33.7 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,791 | 35.6 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,736 | 37.1 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,824 | 34.8 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,810 | 36.6 |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,724 | 39.1 |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,736 | 39.2 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,918 | 33.3 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,859 | 35.2 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,681 | 39.6 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,734 | 37.0 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,302 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,946 | 28.8 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,360 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,007 | 25.2 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,588 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,406 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,719 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,365 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,596 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,609 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,537 | 12.7 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,791 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,418 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,475 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,911 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,280 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,572 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,044 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,893 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,814 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,248 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,729 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,929 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,709 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,006 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,027 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,991 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,743 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,255 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,348 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,422 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,540 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,217 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,288 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,459 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,607 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,674 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,827 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,889 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,076 | 8.4 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,405 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,539 | 11.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,415 Americans recorded as Charis, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Charis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charis, and how old are they?
4,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 4,415 Americans ever recorded as Charis. The median Charis alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 3,934 people named Charis (3,805 women and girls, 129 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,888 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 31 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 215 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 596 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 902 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 944 |
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 Charis born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,692 | 0.9× |
| California | 5 | #3,200 | 0.8× |
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 Charis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Charis
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 Charis and names like it
- Compare Charis and EvangeliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCharis peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charis since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Charis: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Charis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Charis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.