Kariss
Kariss was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 87 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kariss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kariss?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,474, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 1989, the peak
Kariss peaked in 1989, when 7 girls were given it, #10,205 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,474 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,375 | 4.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,575 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,880 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,896 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,149 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,701 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,952 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,002 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,101 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #15,422 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,063 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,013 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,209 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,205 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kariss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kariss has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kariss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kariss, and how old are they?
An estimated 86 Americans named Kariss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 143 people named Kariss (139 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 81 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kariss rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Kariss?
Kariss is a less common spelling of Karis: SSA has recorded 87 Kariss and 6,848 Karis since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,454 babies since 1880, Kariss is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 128 babies recorded by SSA was a Kariss (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kariss
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 Kariss and names like it
- Compare Kariss and KarisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKariss peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Kariss.
- Names starting with KMost given first.