Meaning not yet researched.
Caris: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,811 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,811 in 2013; #7,207 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caris in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,207 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #2,811.
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Caris: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,811 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 61 (2013).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Caris, making it the 7,207th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,549 places from #5,658 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 22 girls named Caris in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,811, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #3,263 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caris in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 1,215 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 483 babies named Caris.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 322 US girls were named Caris; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karis (6,848 babies since 1880), Carys (2,327 babies since 1880) and Karas (652 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carisse are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Carisse (26).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Caris in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,207 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,658 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,419 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,196 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,998 | — | — |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,630 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,573 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 2015 | 50 | #3,263 | — | — |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,985 | — | — |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,099 | — | — |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,875 | — | — |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,931 | — | — |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,961 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,815 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,240 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,635 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,774 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,350 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,214 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,131 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,185 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,018 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,175 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,306 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,523 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,045 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,558 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,867 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,651 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,883 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,776 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,633 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,242 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,244 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).