How Many People Are Named Caris?

1,203

people named Caris are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 284,110 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,215 babies named Caris in Social Security records from 1975 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#9,374

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#5,253

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Peak Year

2013

61 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Rare)
Pronunciation: KAHR-is
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of CHARIS.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Caris in English. Counting Caris and these spellings together, about 3,511 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.6%
Male
0.4%

Almost all of the babies given the name Caris (99.6%) were girls. The share has stayed close to this since the 1990s: 100% of the babies were girls then and 96.7% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Caris alive today is about 16 years old, and 89% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 21 in 2025.

Under 30 1,075
89.4%
30 to 59 127
10.6%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Caris first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 2013, to 61 babies. In 2025, 15 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Caris has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #2,810, in 2013. In 2025 it ranked #7,205.

Girls
Rank in 2025#7,205
Best rank#2,810 (2013)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#3,360 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Caris alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Caris were born in Texas than in any other state: about 102 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Caris was given 4 times as often in Texas and 2.3 times in California.

Texas 102
California 78
North Carolina 18
Ohio 15
Georgia 10
Illinois 5
Virginia 5

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