Chriss
Chriss was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,395 among boys’ names; 678 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chriss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chriss?
#12,395 among boys’ names, 2025
Chriss fell from #10,926 in 2015 to #12,395 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.1 to 2.9 per million.
28 babies in 1960, the peak
Chriss peaked in 1960, when 28 babies were given it (11 boys, #2,560 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,395 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 11 | #7,343 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 8 | #9,066 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #12,698 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 8 | #8,972 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #9,757 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #12,509 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #12,519 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,641 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #7,695 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 6 | #10,926 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 8 | #8,917 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 7 | #9,892 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 8 | #8,941 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 13 | #6,493 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 18 | #5,094 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 15 | #5,690 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #10,902 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 8 | #8,422 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,102 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 9 | #7,140 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 9 | #7,014 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #7,991 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,110 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 8 | #6,482 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,570 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,219 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 8 | #4,572 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,528 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,405 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,481 | 5 | #6,201 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #5,991 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #5,745 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,602 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,214 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,042 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,705 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 10 | #3,101 | |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,762 | 7 | #3,649 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,223 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,551 | 9 | #2,804 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,734 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,243 | 5 | #3,997 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,397 | 9 | #2,890 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,754 | 6 | #3,705 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,380 | 16 | #2,050 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,593 | 19 | #1,889 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,002 | 11 | #2,560 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,117 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,573 | 11 | #2,530 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,216 | 12 | #2,390 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,951 | 12 | #2,381 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,430 | 15 | #2,060 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,757 | 12 | #2,333 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 5 | #3,899 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 9 | #2,705 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 6 | #3,403 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 10 | #2,458 | |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,754 | 10 | #2,469 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,420 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 8 | #2,729 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,647 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 6 | #3,435 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,461 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #3,898 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,081 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #2,975 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Chriss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 678 Americans recorded as Chriss, 22% are girls and 78% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chriss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chriss, and how old are they?
An estimated 551 Americans named Chriss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 19 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 844 people named Chriss (211 women and girls, 633 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 538 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Chriss?
Chriss is a less common spelling of Chris: SSA has recorded 678 Chriss and 170,417 Chris since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 171,095 babies since 1880, Chriss is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 436 babies (1.1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chriss
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Cris | 4,127 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chriss and names like it
- Compare Chriss and ChrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sChriss peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chriss since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Chriss.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Chriss alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.