Karris
Karris was last recorded in 2021, when 7 babies were given it; 180 Americans have been recorded with it between 1986 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karris?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,836, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2003, the peak
Karris peaked in 2003, when 16 girls were given it, #7,044 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | #12,836 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,655 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,993 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,330 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,595 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,833 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,393 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,686 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,962 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,130 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 11 | #10,240 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,392 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,154 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,044 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,497 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,007 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,477 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,586 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,077 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,538 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,531 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,337 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,756 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karris has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karris, and how old are they?
An estimated 178 Americans named Karris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 286 people named Karris (230 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Karris?
Karris is a less common spelling of Karis: SSA has recorded 180 Karris and 6,848 Karis since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,318 babies since 1880, Karris is the fifth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 128 babies recorded by SSA was a Karris (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 Karris
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 Karris and names like it
- Compare Karris and KarisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarris peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Karris.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karris alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.