Kriss — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kriss

The Social Security Administration has registered 555 babies named Kriss between 1949 and 2021, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kriss currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1963, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Kriss is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 377 additional births since 1948.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kriss performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 194 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Kriss shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kriss in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kriss 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 555 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.