Charis

given name · English · Latin script

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

Charis is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Aglaea, one of the Charites.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 1.5K◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 1.6K
  • QAQatar1 in 1.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈198K ●

across 13 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
305 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 266 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

HariLatin · Hindi●1.8M records
ฮาริสThai · Thai●843 records
ΧάρηςGreek · Greek●459 records
ହରOdia · Odia●9 records
හොරSinhala · Sinhala●0 records
హరTelugu · Telugu●0 records

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hari in IN India, ID Indonesia, SE Sweden and 5 more, Charissa in BR Brazil, NL Netherlands, PH Philippines and 3 more, Haire in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DK Denmark and 1 more and Haris in MY Malaysia, PK Pakistan, CH Switzerland.

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

Meaning & origin●

Aglaea, one of the Charites.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Charis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#1482,126,231893K rec.—17KHari254
US United States—138,242137K rec.1 in 2.4K624KHaire305
ID Indonesia#11558,31715K rec.—listedHari181
SE Sweden—22,541△235 rec.1 in 45323KHari17
FI Finland—20,928△82 rec.1 in 26626KCharis14
TR Türkiye—16,77718K rec.—2.5KHas55
MY Malaysia#33513,68714K rec.——Haris70
GB United Kingdom—10,6138.3K rec.—1.8KHaire120
PH Philippines—9,4957.2K rec.——Charissa65
TH Thailand—7,7355.9K rec.—#157,512Harris91
GR Greece#1497,3826.5K rec.—8Harry100
FR France—6,075△137 rec.1 in 11K6.1KCharissa33

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

Languages●

  • English26K62%
  • Spanish5.3K13%
  • Indonesian1.5K4%
  • Greek1.2K3%
  • German9742%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English26,05562%
Spanish5,33013%
Indonesian1,4954%
Greek1,1763%
German9742%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Charis is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name7.2K records spelled Charis7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Philippines, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Charís, Charìs, Cháris, Chärïs, Chárīs

  • Indonesian given name2.3K records spelled Charis3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Çharis

  • a separate given name1.0K records spelled Charis4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Cyprus

    Also written Cháris, Chari̲s, Chárīs

  • Russian given name109 records spelled Charis55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Croatian

    Also written Харис, Haris, Harris, Харіс, Харит

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Charis is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, singular of Chahtes

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Greek; grace, the graceful one

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom. griechischen Ursprungs (griech. charis »Anmut, Liebreiz; Huld, Gna­ de«), auch englisch ['kæns]. In Deutschland kommt Charis seit den i97oer-Jahren vor.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015019401960198020002020127 · 2006

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Charis in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1924–2025
Yearrecords
192414
19259
192610
192711
19285
19295
193811
19405
19418
19429
19438
19448
194514
194610
19479
194812
194912
19508
195115
195214
195310
195423
195510
19567
195715
195812
195914
196018
196114
196225
196320
196424
196522
196622
196715
196822
196929
197028
197142
197231
197342
197434
197554
197658
197754
197851
197963
198065
198161
198259
198362
198460
198558
198654
198756
198848
198948
199050
199158
199266
199342
199460
199559
199662
199759
199867
199982
200085
200180
200282
200399
2004113
2005108
2006127
200785
200897
200995
2010116
2011105
201295
2013102
2014105
201586
201671
201787
201872
201956
202069
202159
202259
202352
202459
202551

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 93 years between 1924–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Charis Wilson, b. 1914Kharis Yunichev, b. 1931Charis Eng, b. 1962Charis Kontosfiris, b. 1965Charis Moritsis, b. 1970Charis Michelsen, b. 1974Charis Yulianto, b. 1978Charis Charisis, b. 1995Charis Scott, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 52 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Charis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.8K#4,653
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020129#4,653
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—90#5,890
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202551—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—51#11,729
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—40#15,783
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#15,798
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202229—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24#96,655
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—22#3,087
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—22#5,513
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—20#18,859

Reference works 3

  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 346 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Charis?
We estimate roughly 198 thousand people bear Charis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Charis have the most bearers?
Charis is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled hari.
Where is Charis most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Charis is densest in Finland — about 1 in 266 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Charis compared with other names?
In India, Charis is the 148th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Charis a male or female name?
Charis is a male 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.
What does the name Charis mean?
Recorded meaning: Aglaea, one of the Charites.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Charis” — the 148th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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