Karis
#2,017 for girls in 2025, 94 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to girls 98.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 310 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,744since 1935
Karis over time
Rank among girls' names. Karis has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,017 | 94 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,150 | 88 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #2,033 | 96 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,807 | 113 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #1,680 | 123 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,445 | 150 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #1,452 | 152 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,335 | 169 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #1,340 | 173 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #1,118 | 226 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,255 | 195 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,079 | 237 | — | |
| 2013 | #938 | 269 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #859 | 310 | — | |
| 2011 | #902 | 289 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,059 | 234 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,059 | 241 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,038 | 252 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,115 | 232 | — | |
| 2006 | #942 | 278 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #947 | 261 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #912 | 265 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #1,062 | 211 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #1,142 | 182 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,654 | 110 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #1,776 | 98 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,539 | 110 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,751 | 90 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,733 | 89 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,014 | 69 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,746 | 83 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,152 | 62 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,059 | 66 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,877 | 75 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #2,153 | 60 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,054 | 61 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,447 | 44 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,991 | 56 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,079 | 51 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #1,905 | 55 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,563 | 36 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,603 | 36 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #2,248 | 43 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #2,125 | 44 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,514 | 19 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,894 | 15 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,318 | 17 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,264 | 15 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,379 | 15 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,814 | 19 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
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| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 | — | |
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| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
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| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 | — | |
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| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karis! It came in at #4,204, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1935–1939, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Karis is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#400 · 1 in 1,794
- South Carolina#426 · 1 in 1,938
- Kentucky#459 · 1 in 2,461
- Kansas#504 · 1 in 2,294
- Virginia#572 · 1 in 3,373
Best ever in a state: #400 in Alabama, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #400 | 11 | 1 in 1,794 |
| South Carolina | #426 | 9 | 1 in 1,938 |
| Kentucky | #459 | 8 | 1 in 2,461 |
| Kansas | #504 | 6 | 1 in 2,294 |
| Virginia | #572 | 11 | 1 in 3,373 |
| Missouri | #573 | 9 | 1 in 3,223 |
| Oklahoma | #589 | 6 | 1 in 2,779 |
| Colorado | #608 | 8 | 1 in 3,090 |
| Indiana | #619 | 9 | 1 in 3,612 |
| Maryland | #649 | 7 | 1 in 3,538 |
| North Carolina | #676 | 12 | 1 in 3,783 |
| Georgia | #680 | 14 | 1 in 3,671 |
| Texas | #769 | 35 | 1 in 4,589 |
| Wisconsin | #777 | 5 | 1 in 5,009 |
| Ohio | #789 | 10 | 1 in 5,728 |
| Michigan | #797 | 9 | 1 in 5,262 |
| Pennsylvania | #916 | 8 | 1 in 6,857 |
| Florida | #919 | 14 | 1 in 6,122 |
| New Jersey | #1,115 | 5 | 1 in 8,119 |
| Illinois | #1,441 | 6 | 1 in 11,193 |
| California | #1,477 | 18 | 1 in 12,801 |
| New York | #1,854 | 6 | 1 in 15,847 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Karis
- 133 spots since 2024 (#2,150 → #2,017)
- 572 spots since 2020 (#1,445 → #2,017)
- 762 spots since 2015 (#1,255 → #2,017)
- Biggest jump: 157 spots in 2011 (#1,059 → #902)
- Biggest drop: 173 spots in 2007 (#942 → #1,115)
- Debuted 1935
- Peaked 2012 at #859 (310 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2004–2006
- Highest: 1 in 5,681 girls born in 2012 were named Karis (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,099 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 33.4% of all girls named Karis (2,254) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,204 (1935) | #4,204 |
| 1940s | 24 | #3,863 (1940) | #4,260 |
| 1950s | 67 | #3,284 (1951) | #4,401 |
| 1960s | 146 | #2,814 (1962) | #3,488 |
| 1970s | 233 | #2,125 (1978) | #3,468 |
| 1980s | 459 | #1,833 (1985) | #2,340 |
| 1990s | 762 | #1,539 (1999) | #1,928 |
| 2000s | 2,130 | #912 (2004) | #1,165 |
| 2010s | 2,254 | #859 (2012) | #1,134 |
| 2020s | 664 | #1,445 (2020) | #1,855 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Karis in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 7,080 of them was named Karis, which outranked 95.1% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 399,461 of them was named Karis, which outranked 14.2% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,898 names at #11,472; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.