Karis

Where Karis comes from

Karis hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1935
    First appearance
    #4,204 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Karis Paige Bryant born
    American actress
  3. 1994
    Karis Alika Islamadina born
    Australian-Indonesian singer
  4. 2012
    Peak, #859
    310 babies named Karis — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,452.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Karis Paige Bryant · American actress, born 1985
  • Karis Alika Islamadina · Australian-Indonesian singer, born 1994
  • Karis Watson · American volleyball player, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.