Khris
Khris was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,047 among boys’ names; 393 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khris?
#13,047 among boys’ names, 2025
Khris fell from #9,193 in 2015 to #13,047 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 2.9 per million.
30 babies in 2008, the peak
Khris peaked in 2008, when 30 boys were given it, #3,607 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #13,047 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,682 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 10 | #8,059 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 13 | #6,519 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,169 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 11 | #7,418 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,525 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,193 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 8 | #9,245 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 13 | #6,455 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,842 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 21 | #4,588 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 16 | #5,617 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 24 | #4,221 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 30 | #3,607 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 10 | #7,909 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 18 | #4,965 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 16 | #5,164 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #12,376 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #10,285 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #9,760 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,091 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,945 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,561 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,305 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,499 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,382 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,102 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,013 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 8 | #3,247 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,887 | |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,049 | 5 | #4,206 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,731 | 9 | #2,967 |
| 1963 | under 5 | 8 | #3,194 | |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,042 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,047 | 6 | #3,854 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 11 | #2,614 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,895 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,536 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,560 | under 5 |
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 Khris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 393 Americans recorded as Khris, 12% are girls and 88% 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 Khris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khris, and how old are they?
An estimated 370 Americans named Khris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 741 people named Khris (152 women and girls, 589 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 335 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Khris rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Khris?
Khris is a less common spelling of Kris: SSA has recorded 393 Khris and 27,971 Kris since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,188 babies since 1880, Khris is the fourth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 108 babies (4.6%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Khris and names like it
- Compare Khris and KrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKhris peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khris since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Khris.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Khris alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.