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 | — | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#440 · 1 in 1,847
- Arkansas#471 · 1 in 1,899
- North Carolina#504 · 1 in 2,442
- Maryland#522 · 1 in 2,410
- Kentucky#537 · 1 in 2,592
Best ever in a state: #400 in Alabama, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #440 | 10 | 1 in 1,847 |
| Arkansas | #471 | 6 | 1 in 1,899 |
| North Carolina | #504 | 18 | 1 in 2,442 |
| Maryland | #522 | 10 | 1 in 2,410 |
| Kentucky | #537 | 7 | 1 in 2,592 |
| South Carolina | #540 | 7 | 1 in 2,489 |
| Ohio | #571 | 17 | 1 in 3,034 |
| Georgia | #588 | 17 | 1 in 2,783 |
| Virginia | #674 | 10 | 1 in 3,638 |
| Texas | #683 | 43 | 1 in 3,682 |
| Tennessee | #728 | 8 | 1 in 3,734 |
| Michigan | #799 | 9 | 1 in 4,574 |
| New Jersey | #813 | 8 | 1 in 4,564 |
| Minnesota | #843 | 5 | 1 in 4,805 |
| California | #856 | 40 | 1 in 5,227 |
| Florida | #896 | 15 | 1 in 5,308 |
| Washington | #929 | 6 | 1 in 5,075 |
| Illinois | #981 | 10 | 1 in 5,876 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,102 | 7 | 1 in 7,536 |
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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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 5,681 of them was named Karis, which outranked 95.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).