Charis
#3,130 for girls in 2025, 51 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 98.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 127 births
- Debut · girls
- 14 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,347since 1924
Charis over time
Rank among girls' names. Charis has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #3,130 | 51 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #2,819 | 59 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #3,140 | 52 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,856 | 59 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,848 | 59 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,500 | 69 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,457 | 72 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,184 | 87 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,517 | 71 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,194 | 86 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,908 | 105 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,939 | 102 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,028 | 95 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,898 | 105 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,769 | 116 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 95 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #2,092 | 97 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,276 | 85 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,664 | 127 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #1,803 | 108 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,714 | 113 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,858 | 99 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #2,081 | 82 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,075 | 80 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,969 | 85 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,914 | 82 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,146 | 67 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,283 | 59 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #2,244 | 59 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,209 | 60 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,059 | 66 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #2,242 | 58 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,437 | 50 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,408 | 48 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,295 | 48 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #1,991 | 56 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,003 | 54 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,906 | 58 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,788 | 60 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,733 | 62 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,822 | 59 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,809 | 61 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #1,720 | 65 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,731 | 63 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #1,915 | 51 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,857 | 54 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,677 | 58 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,729 | 54 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,290 | 34 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,939 | 42 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,356 | 31 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,001 | 42 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,577 | 28 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,708 | 22 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,340 | 15 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,586 | 22 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,605 | 22 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,530 | 24 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,780 | 20 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,414 | 25 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,904 | 18 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,033 | 15 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,240 | 23 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,921 | 14 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,217 | 10 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 | — | |
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| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,514 | 14 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Charis! It came in at #2,514, and was given to 14 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1928–1937, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Charis is popular in 1992
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,577 · 1 in 17,198
- California#2,595 · 1 in 36,687
Best ever in a state: #279 in Hawaii, 1984.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #1,577 | 8 | 1 in 17,198 |
| California | #2,595 | 7 | 1 in 36,687 |
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| Alaska | — | — | — |
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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 Charis
- 311 spots since 2024 (#2,819 → #3,130)
- 630 spots since 2020 (#2,500 → #3,130)
- 936 spots since 2015 (#2,194 → #3,130)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 2006 at #1,664 (127 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,970 girls born in 2006 were named Charis (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,515 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 22.3% of all girls named Charis (971) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 54 | #2,514 (1924) | #3,513 |
| 1930s | 11 | #2,579 (1938) | #2,579 |
| 1940s | 95 | #2,339 (1945) | #3,290 |
| 1950s | 128 | #2,240 (1954) | #3,395 |
| 1960s | 211 | #2,396 (1969) | #2,772 |
| 1970s | 457 | #1,677 (1976) | #2,007 |
| 1980s | 571 | #1,720 (1980) | #1,948 |
| 1990s | 605 | #1,914 (1999) | #2,254 |
| 2000s | 971 | #1,664 (2006) | #1,965 |
| 2010s | 895 | #1,769 (2010) | #2,182 |
| 2020s | 349 | #2,500 (2020) | #2,882 |
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.
Charis in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
Top boys' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 27,938 of them was named Charis, which outranked 86.8% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,033Tristen67
- #2,033Yahaira67
- #2,033Yuri67
- #2,059Charis66
- #2,059Cassy66
- #2,059Charisse66
- #2,059Jaquelyn66
- #2,078Aurelia65
- #2,078Bianka65
- #2,078Brett65
Tied with 18 names at #2,059; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 399,482 of them was named Charis, which outranked 14.1% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,385 names at #8,435; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.