Gender-neutral · #3181 in 2025

Kris

Kris: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#3181
Born 2025
37
Peak year
1974

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Kris per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1974. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Kris has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 8% of its 1974 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 17% of children named Kris were recorded as girls and 83% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

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Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.