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.
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 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 14,970 of them was named Charis, which outranked 91.7% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,651Sana128
- #1,651Sonja128
- #1,651Yazmine128
- #1,664Charis127
- #1,664Cielo127
- #1,664Joey127
- #1,664Judy127
- #1,672Calli126
- #1,672Kaylei126
- #1,672Kenley126
Tied with 7 names at #1,664; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 342,546 of them was named Charis, which outranked 24.1% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,585Zimere7
- #9,585Zyir7
- #9,585Zytavious7
- #10,662Charis6
- #10,662Aaris6
- #10,662Aashir6
- #10,662Abad6
- #12,055Aadhav5
- #12,055Aakarsh5
- #12,055Aalijah5
Tied with 1,392 names at #10,662; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.