Charis
86% girls · 14% boys
About Charis
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 is also given to boys, where it ranks #9066 in the US.
Pronounced KAIR-is.
As of October 2026, Charis ranked #9066 for boys and #3137 for girls in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #6197 for boys in 1979 and #1664 for girls in 2006.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,909 | 105 | 58.8 |
| 2015 | #2,196 | 86 | 48.2 |
| 2016 | #2,522 | 71 | 40.1 |
| 2017 | #2,186 | 87 | 50.4 |
| 2018 | #2,460 | 72 | 42.3 |
| 2019 | #2,934 | 56 | 33.4 |
| 2020 | #2,506 | 69 | 42.7 |
| 2021 | #2,855 | 59 | 36 |
| 2022 | #2,864 | 59 | 36 |
| 2023 | #3,143 | 52 | 32.4 |
| 2024 | #2,885 | 57 | 35.2 |
| 2025 | #3,137 | 51 | 31.7 |
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Famous Chariss
- Charis Elisa MichelsenGirl
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- (Helen) Charis WilsonGirl
American model for photographer Edward Weston
- Charis BoyleGirl
American model
- Charis Pulvar (b. 1998)Girl
daughter of Audrey Pulvar
- Charis Amber LincolnGirl
American Youtuber
Charis in pop culture
- CharisGirl
Greek term for any of three goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, together known as the Charites or Graces
- CharisGirl
wife of Hephaestus in Homer's Iliad
- Charis (born Karen)Girl
character in Margaret Atwood's "The Robber Bride"
- CharisGirl
narrator of "The Story of the Greek Slave," by Captain Marryat
- Charis MerrivilleGirl
beautiful 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."