Criss
Criss was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,420 among boys’ names; 712 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Criss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Criss?
#12,420 among boys’ names, 2025
Criss fell from #6,055 in 2015 to #12,420 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
40 babies in 2007, the peak
Criss peaked in 2007, when 40 boys were given it, #2,933 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,420 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #11,208 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #12,587 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,516 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,052 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 6 | #11,045 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,019 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 9 | #8,267 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 14 | #6,055 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 11 | #7,153 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #9,857 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 11 | #7,156 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 9 | #8,200 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 27 | #3,828 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 23 | #4,304 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 29 | #3,662 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 40 | #2,933 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 17 | #5,111 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 11 | #6,715 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,598 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,119 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,710 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,575 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #5,977 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #5,765 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,405 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,142 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,719 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,836 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 8 | #3,363 | |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,738 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,760 | 12 | #2,355 |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,603 | |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,403 | 17 | #1,983 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,482 | 12 | #2,440 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,988 | 15 | #2,131 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,397 | 17 | #2,009 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,828 | 17 | #1,982 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,129 | 18 | #1,923 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,980 | 12 | #2,393 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,513 | 13 | #2,293 |
| 1956 | under 5 | 14 | #2,182 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,322 | 7 | #3,255 |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #3,933 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 15 | #2,056 | |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,191 | 6 | #3,434 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,948 | 7 | #3,125 |
| 1950 | under 5 | 15 | #1,957 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 11 | #2,364 | |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,645 | 6 | #3,380 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,434 | 6 | #3,438 |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,623 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 9 | #2,491 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 9 | #2,959 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #3,974 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,289 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,441 |
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 Criss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 712 Americans recorded as Criss, 16% are girls and 84% 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 Criss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Criss, and how old are they?
An estimated 575 Americans named Criss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 17 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 781 people named Criss (202 women and girls, 579 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 585 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above 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 Criss?
Criss is a less common spelling of Kris: SSA has recorded 712 Criss and 27,971 Kris since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 34,193 babies since 1880, Criss is the fourth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 75 babies (6.7%), again the fourth 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.
More about Criss and names like it
- Compare Criss and KrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCriss peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Criss since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Criss.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Criss alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.