Charis

HAR-ees

Greek

"grace"

Charis Origin and Meaning

The name Charis is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "grace".

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.

Popularity of the name Charis

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Famous People Named Charis

• Charis Elisa Michelsen American actress and model
• (Helen) Charis Wilson American model for photographer Edward Weston
• Charis Boyle American model
• Charis Pulvar (b. 1998) daughter of Audrey Pulvar
• Charis Amber Lincoln American Youtuber

The name Charis in Pop Culture

• Charis Greek term for any of three goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, together known as the Charites or Graces
• Charis wife of Hephaestus in Homer's Iliad
• Charis (born Karen) character in Margaret Atwood's "The Robber Bride"
• Charis narrator of "The Story of the Greek Slave," by Captain Marryat
• Charis Merriville 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."