# Karis (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/karis/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,848 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 104 / 6,744 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 974, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 289 | 903 |
| 2012 | 310 | 861 |
| 2013 | 269 | 938 |
| 2014 | 237 | 1,083 |
| 2015 | 195 | 1,256 |
| 2016 | 226 | 1,123 |
| 2017 | 173 | 1,344 |
| 2018 | 169 | 1,336 |
| 2019 | 152 | 1,456 |
| 2020 | 150 | 1,446 |
| 2021 | 123 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 113 | 1,812 |
| 2023 | 96 | 2,039 |
| 2024 | 88 | 2,166 |
| 2025 | 94 | 2,030 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | 6,760 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,836 |
| 1985 | 7 | 5,456 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,761 |
| 2001 | 8 | 7,939 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10,241 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8,539 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,391 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,034 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,109 |
| 2017 | 5 | 13,259 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,480 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,309 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,330 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,264 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | 894 |
| 2012 | 31 | 1,099 |
| 2013 | 29 | 1,177 |
| 2014 | 38 | 963 |
| 2015 | 29 | 1,168 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,749 |
| 2017 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2018 | 12 | 2,187 |
| 2019 | 13 | 2,040 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,689 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3,318 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,440 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.