Meaning not yet researched.
Charis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,664 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,664 in 2006; #3,137 in 2025. About 86% of babies named Charis in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,137 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,664.
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Charis: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,664 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 127 (2006).
In 2025, 51 US girls were named Charis, making it the 3,137th most common girls’ name of the year, down 312 places from #2,825 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 59 girls named Charis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,664, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 127. For comparison, it was #2,197 in 2015 and #4,008 in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Charis, making it the 9,066th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,820 places from #6,246 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 14 boys named Charis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #6,196, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 14, in 2024. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Charis in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 14 babies. In all, 4,415 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 987 babies named Charis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 635 US girls were named Charis; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 87. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,515 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Charisse (5,296 babies since 1880) and Charise (2,154 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kharis and Chares 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: Kharis (294), Chares (69).
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 Charis 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 | 51 | #3,137 | 8 | #9,066 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,825 | 14 | #6,246 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,147 | — | — |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,936 | — | — |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 2017 | 87 | #2,187 | — | — |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 2015 | 86 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 2013 | 102 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 2011 | 105 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,122 | 5 | #12,809 |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 2007 | 85 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 2006 | 127 | #1,664 | 6 | #10,898 |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,863 | 5 | #11,162 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,179 | 5 | #9,220 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,214 | 5 | #9,012 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,060 | 5 | #8,609 |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,298 | 5 | #7,460 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1986 | 54 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,810 | 5 | #6,430 |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,736 | 5 | #6,196 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,281 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,573 | — | — |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,894 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,815 | — | — |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,730 | — | — |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,930 | — | — |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,008 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,745 | — | — |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,541 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,219 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,676 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,829 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,077 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,406 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,540 | — | — |
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).