Kris — #3535 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kris

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,362 babies named Kris between 1937 and 2024, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kris currently holds the #3535 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 513 babies received it in a single year. Kris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 13,563 additional births since 1940.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kris performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 4,152 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Kris shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,768 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Kris in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kris 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 14,362 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.