Kris
Kris is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. Its best rank was 344th, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1962513 births
- Best rank
- #344in 1963
- Since 1937
- 27,925people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,362 boys have been named Kris in the United States since 1937, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 513 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 29%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Kris is used for both sexes: 49% of its bearers are girls (13,563), most of them born around 1965.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kris | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 11 | |
| 1940s | 422 | |
| 1950s | 2,634 | |
| 1960s | 4,152 | |
| 1970s | 3,681 | |
| 1980s | 1,184 | |
| 1990s | 667 | |
| 2000s | 748 | |
| 2010s | 645 | |
| 2020s | 218 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Kris was the 347th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Kris
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Geoffpeak 1962
- Jeffreypeak 1962
- Mickypeak 1961
- Bradpeak 1960
- Scottpeak 1971
- Jefferypeak 1962
- Robbypeak 1964
- Scotpeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.