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I love Charis (KAR-is) - It's Greek and means grace & kindness. Carys (KAH-ris), and its variant Cerys (KEH-ris), are Welsh and mean love. All are beautiful with lovely meanings, so I'd choose your favorite pronunciation and go from there! Best of luck to you.

It's pretty. I used to work with a girl called Charis

I knew a girl named Charis in high school (pronounced with a K sound). I didn't really love it then. At the time, the name was really unfamiliar to me since I'd never heard it before although I do have more of an appreciation of the name now. I like how it looks and sounds (more so how it looks). The meaning is nice as well.

i never heard it before, and for a second it sounded really sweet to me. but then i realized how similar both pronunciations sound to Chris (especially KAH-riss), so much that it'd sound just like Chris when saying it fast. there's nothing objectively bad about that, i just hate the name Chris.

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otherwise, i feel like it would be annoying to have, since there's like three different pronunciations that seem all equally likely for someone to use. Carys would be much simpler.

Charis is a very lovely name, but I prefer the spelling Karis as it's easier for folks to understand the pronunciation and the Greek letter looks more like a K than a Ch. I love the meaning and the sound.
I also like the Welsh name Carys which is pronounced the same but with a different meaning.

I've only seen it used in fiction by British authors, so it looks British to me.

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I've been liking a few Car* (Carina, Caridad, Carmela) and *is (Amaryllis, Doris, Mavis) names recently, but I don't like the sounds combined all that much.

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And I'm pretty sure most people I know would pronounce it CHAR-iss or CHAIR-iss, which would annoy me if it were my name.

This message was edited 3/28/2018, 6:00 PM

I think it's lovely!
Good meaning, good sound. It's simple but elegant, and interesting without being too odd. I feel as though it would age well with someone.

Felie asked about this a month ago, for some extra opinions for you https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/4902569

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I'm just going to copy my response, since it hasn't changed.

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I say it as Care-iss. I love it from a religious perspective, but like that it's not super in your face about it. I go back and forth on liking it enough to use, but it was my #1 for a few months.

I love Carys, pronounced CARE-iss, and assumed that Charis was pronounced the same, and was going to say that I love the sound of it, but prefer Carys (which I know is a different name with an entirely different etymology). But KAH-riss? I still like it, but Carys CARE-iss is better. This site doesn't give a pronunciation for Charis, so I don't know if KAH-riss is right or CARE-iss is right for Charis, or both are. My instinct would be to pronounce Charis CARE-iss.

Hi Perrine !!!

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I should make a 'Chatacters list'..

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Infact Charis has a beautiful meaning but it is in my heart thanks to a fictional princess.

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The book is 'Taliesin' by Stephen Lawhead. Here Charis is a beautiful, stubborn, intelligent and fascinating princess of Atlantis (an island/Empire of Greek culture).

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I already known this name because of its meaning but this book makes it lovely!

I love this name. I prefer it spelled without the H though. Caris or Karis. It is a main character in my favorite book of all time: The Pillars of the Earth. Had I read this book prior to my last child, this would have been her name.