Kharis
Kharis was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,113 among girls’ names; 294 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kharis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kharis?
#8,113 among girls’ names, 2025
Kharis rose from #9,817 in 2015 to #8,113 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 8.1 per million.
21 babies in 2019, the peak
Kharis peaked in 2019, when 21 girls were given it, #5,893 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,113 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,708 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,095 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,847 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,945 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,685 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,893 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,904 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,169 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,204 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,817 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,487 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,330 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,417 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,809 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,138 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,090 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,081 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,579 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,615 | 6.3 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,499 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,162 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,547 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,773 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,278 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,364 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,658 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,597 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,372 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kharis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 294 Americans recorded as Kharis, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 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 Kharis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kharis, and how old are they?
An estimated 291 Americans named Kharis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 287 people named Kharis (235 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 218 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above 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 Kharis?
Kharis is a less common spelling of Karis: SSA has recorded 294 Kharis and 6,848 Karis since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 9,133 babies since 1880, Kharis is the fourth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 128 babies (10%), the third most given that year.
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 Kharis
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 Kharis and names like it
- Compare Kharis and KarisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKharis peaked in 2019.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Kharis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kharis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.