Charis
HAR-ees
Greek
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Updated Mon Mar 25 2024
Charis Origin and Meaning
The name Charis is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "grace".
Reference to the mythological Three Graces of womanly charm, this one representing charity. Pronounced in Greek as starting with a back-of-the-throat H sound, most English-speakers would translate that to something closer to KAR-is. It's also the name of a girl who lived in Atlantis in the novel Taliesin, and appears in the Margaret Atwood novel The Robber Bride.
Charis Popularity
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Famous People Named Charis
- Charis Elisa MichelsenAmerican actress and model
- (Helen) Charis WilsonAmerican model for photographer Edward Weston
- Charis BoyleAmerican model
- Charis Pulvar (b. 1998)daughter of Audrey Pulvar
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Charis in Pop Culture
- CharisGreek term for any of three goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, together known as the Charites or Graces
- Chariswife of Hephaestus in Homer's Iliad
- Charis (born Karen)character in Margaret Atwood's "The Robber Bride"
- Charisnarrator of "The Story of the Greek Slave," by Captain Marryat
- Charis Merrivillebeautiful sister of the title character in Georgette Heyer's "Frederica" (1965): "Charis! And I thought that never was anyone more aptly named, for it means 'grace', you know,,from the Greek."