Chriss — #7783 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Chriss

The Social Security Administration has registered 520 babies named Chriss between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chriss currently holds the #7783 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Chriss is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 150 additional births since 1947.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chriss performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 101 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Chriss shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Chriss in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chriss 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 520 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.