Karis
Karis was given to 94 girls in 2025, #2,030 among girls’ names; 6,848 Americans have been recorded with it since 1935 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,710 Americans named Karis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karis?
#2,030 among girls’ names, 2025
Karis fell from #1,256 in 2015 to #2,030 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.06 per 1,000.
310 babies in 2012, the peak
Karis peaked in 2012, when 310 girls were given it, #861 among girls’ names. The 94 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,030 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,166 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 96 | #2,039 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,812 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,688 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 150 | #1,446 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,456 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 169 | #1,336 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,344 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 226 | #1,123 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 195 | #1,256 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 237 | #1,083 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 269 | #938 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 310 | #861 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 289 | #903 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 234 | #1,060 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 241 | #1,060 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 252 | #1,040 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 232 | #1,117 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 278 | #943 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 261 | #948 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 265 | #915 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 211 | #1,063 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 182 | #1,142 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 110 | #1,656 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,781 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 110 | #1,539 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,754 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,734 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,023 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,749 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,275 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,156 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,060 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,876 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 60 | #2,157 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 61 | #2,055 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,455 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,003 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,087 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,844 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,912 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,188 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,793 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,585 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,626 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,257 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,136 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,967 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,510 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,561 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,790 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,339 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,974 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,406 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,350 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,381 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,881 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,181 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,319 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,324 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,436 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,247 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,861 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,880 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,145 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,579 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,397 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,964 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,379 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,001 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,399 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,696 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,096 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,546 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,848 Americans recorded as Karis, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 94 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Karis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karis, and how old are they?
6,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,848 Americans ever recorded as Karis. The median Karis alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 5,873 people named Karis (5,720 women and girls, 153 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,106 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 127 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 334 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 889 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,110 |
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 Karis born?
The states with the most babies named Karis are Texas, California and Florida, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,750 | 1.1× |
| California | 9 | #2,188 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,614 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,578 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 5 | #912 | 1.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,252 | 0.3× |
Where Karis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karis is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1935 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Karis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,572 babies since 1880, Karis is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 160 babies (59%), again the 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 Karis
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 Karis and names like it
- Compare Karis and CarysBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaris peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karis since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Karis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.