girls:
6.6k births since 1935
#2028 (65th percentile)
boys:
99 births since 1971
#4487 (2nd percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1935
#3302 (57th percentile)
The name Karis is the #3,302 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,657 recorded births since 1935. This represents the 57.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,028 (64.5% percentile) for all time with 6,558 births since 1935. For boys, it ranks #4,487 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 99 births since 1971.
Karis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1935 (1935 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Karis is available in 77 out of the 89 years between 1935 and 2023 (77 years for girls and 17 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Karis has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Karis reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 32.1% percentile (ranked #637) with 160 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 160 births per million (ranked 32.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Karis ranks #857 for girls (9.5% percentile) with 54 births per million, which is 34.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Karis reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #822) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karis".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Karis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.1% confident that Karis is pronounced as KEH-rihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-rihs, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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