Cris — #5886 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cris

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,019 babies named Cris between 1885 and 2024, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cris currently holds the #5886 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 115 babies received it in a single year. Cris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,094 additional births since 1939.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cris performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 806 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Cris shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 352 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Cris in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cris 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 3,019 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.