Chris — #651 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Chris

The Social Security Administration has registered 147,039 babies named Chris between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chris currently holds the #651 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 7,204 babies received it in a single year. Chris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22,956 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chris performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 56,347 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Chris shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19,067 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Chris in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chris in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 147,039 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.