Meaning not yet researched.
Karis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #861 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #861 in 2012; #2,030 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karis in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,030 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #861.
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Karis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 girls in 2025. Peak: #861 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 310 (2012).
In 2025, 94 US girls were named Karis, making it the 2,030th most common girls’ name of the year, up 136 places from #2,166 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 88 girls named Karis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #861, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 310. For comparison, it was #1,256 in 2015 and #5,003 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karis in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 5 babies. In all, 6,848 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,270 babies named Karis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,384 US girls were named Karis; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 226. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karis ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #912 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carys (2,327 babies since 1880), Caris (1,215 babies since 1880), Kairos (775 babies since 1880) and Karas (652 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karys, Karris and Karess are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Karys (509), Karris (180), Karess (112), Kariss (87), Karyss (73), Carris (38), Karise (23), Kairus (22), Caros (17), Carise (15), Kairis (8), Karras (6), and more.
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 Karis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 5 | #912 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,579 | #867 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,614 | #1,418 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,750 | #1,079 |
| California | 9 | #2,188 | #1,315 |
| New York | 5 | #2,252 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,166 | 5 | #13,264 |
| 2023 | 96 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,812 | 7 | #10,330 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 2020 | 150 | #1,446 | 6 | #11,309 |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 2018 | 169 | #1,336 | 6 | #11,480 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,344 | 5 | #13,259 |
| 2016 | 226 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 2015 | 195 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 2014 | 237 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 2013 | 269 | #938 | 5 | #13,109 |
| 2012 | 310 | #861 | — | — |
| 2011 | 289 | #903 | — | — |
| 2010 | 234 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 2009 | 241 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 2008 | 252 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 2007 | 232 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 2006 | 278 | #943 | 5 | #13,034 |
| 2005 | 261 | #948 | 5 | #12,391 |
| 2004 | 265 | #915 | 8 | #8,539 |
| 2003 | 211 | #1,064 | 6 | #10,241 |
| 2002 | 182 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 2001 | 110 | #1,658 | 8 | #7,939 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1999 | 110 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,882 | 6 | #7,761 |
| 1990 | 60 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1989 | 61 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,845 | 7 | #5,456 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,912 | 5 | #6,836 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,626 | 5 | #6,760 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,257 | 5 | #6,542 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,136 | 5 | #6,293 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,968 | — | — |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,790 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,341 | — | — |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,974 | — | — |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,408 | 5 | #5,289 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,882 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,182 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,320 | — | — |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,437 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,881 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,707 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,580 | — | — |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,452 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,398 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,966 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,380 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,003 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,401 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,698 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,895 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,548 | — | — |
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).