Charis

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Charis: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Charis: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #220 in 2000, and it stood at #535 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#220highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#506
1997	#484
1998	#408
1999	#357
2000	#465
2001	#532
2002	#603
2003	#690
2004	#521
2005	#645
2006	#909
2007	#1126
2008	#937
2009	#932
2010	#1013
2011	#1096
2012	#1037
2013	#1433
2014	#1966
2015	#1549
2016	#1635
2017	#2201
2018	#2090
2019	#1940
2020	#3447
2021	#2341
2022	#1849
2023	#1206
2024	#1672

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2017: #432 among girls in Northern Ireland, #2201 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #506 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2017
Highest recorded position: #220 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2000 (recorded 1997–2017).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1672 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Charis appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,005 births with the name.

Charis across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Charis's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#506 (1996)	#357 (1999)	#1672 (2024)	29 of 29	1,005 (1996–2024)	90 (1999)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#220 (2000)	#432 (2017)	11 of 21	44 (1997–2017)	6 (2000)
England and Wales · Boys	#4991 (2023)	#1951 (2024)	#1951 (2024)	2 of 2	15 (2023–2024)	12 (2024)

Charis by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Charis in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	276	4 of 10	69
2000sbusiest	440	10 of 10	44
2010s	212	10 of 10	21
2020s	77	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 44 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1999 and 2000, when recorded births fell by 26, from 90 to 64.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Charis appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #220 in Northern Ireland in 2000.

Charis's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1672	18	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1206	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1635	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1549	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1966	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1433	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1037	34	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1096	31	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#932	35	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#937	34	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1126	25	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#909	32	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#645	48	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#521	62	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#690	41	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#603	46	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#532	53	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#465	64	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#357	90	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#408	76	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#484	58	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#506	52	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#327	5	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#301	5	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#254	6	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#339	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#293	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#220	6	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #220, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 90 births, registered in England and Wales in 1999.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Chantelle · #78, 42y
Chardonnay · #365, 22y
Charissa · #2701, 15y
Charlea · #1160, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Becky · #220, 25y
Demi-Leigh · #220, 29y
Bryn · #219, 29y
Chelsey · #221, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Becky · #220, 25y
Cianan · #220, 23y
Demi-Leigh · #220, 29y
Owain · #220, 29y

Charis was ranked #220 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Charis and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Charis without appearing here.

Charis moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2090 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #5591.
Donna Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #4634.
Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1849 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1206 and #2689.
Aisling Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1849 and #1621 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1206 and #2504.

Moved ahead of Charis

Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1940 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #1313.
Linda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1433 and #1639 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1966 and #1016.
Ezra Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1635 and #1689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #2201 and #1411.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1206 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1672 and #952.

Moved the opposite way to Charis

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Charis went from #506 to #1672 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Charis went from #506 to #1672 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Charis went from #506 to #1672 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Charis went from #506 to #1672 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Charis

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Charis went from #506 to #1672 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Charis went from #506 to #1672 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Charis went from #506 to #1672 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Charis went from #506 to #1672 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #220 in Northern Ireland in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Charis

Charis at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Charis across 3 official records

Charis by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Charis appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Charis moved ahead of

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Charis at a glance

Charis across 3 official records

Charis by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Charis appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Charis

Charis and the names beside it

Charis moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Charis

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