Karís

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Karís is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 5,873 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • HKHong Kong≈1 in 17Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 57K
  • GYGuyana1 in 68K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

5,873 people, 2020

Record sources
276 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Hong Kong, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Karis in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 3

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Karís counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Karís is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—5,8731 in 57K5.7KKaris276
GB United Kingdom—≈800 est.≈1 in 86K6Karis133
NG Nigeria—≈700 est.≈1 in 333K—Karis19
HK Hong Kong—≈440 est.≈1 in 17K—Karis17
AU Australia—≈250 est.≈1 in 110K1Karis67
HN Honduras—≈130 est.≈1 in 81K—Karis4
JM Jamaica#408≈18 est.≈1 in 157K—Karis4
GY Guyana—111 in 68K11—3

5,873 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Karís under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Karís a male or female name?
Karís is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Karís?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Karís, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karis. After it come United Kingdom, Nigeria, Hong Kong and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Karís?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,873 people named Karís in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
How common is Karís compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Karís is the 408th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Karís” — ranked 3522nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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