Kriss
Kriss was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 932 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kriss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kriss?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,536, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1963, the peak
Kriss peaked in 1963, when 58 babies were given it (31 boys, #1,414 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #11,536 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,547 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,189 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #13,214 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 8 | #9,348 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 7 | #10,517 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,135 | 8 | #9,488 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 10 | #7,922 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 12 | #6,706 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #12,408 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | under 5 | 9 | #7,579 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 7 | #8,815 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #9,783 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #9,128 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,527 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,637 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 11 | #5,208 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,636 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 7 | #5,478 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 8 | #4,787 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,914 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,746 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,022 | 10 | #3,954 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,304 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 10 | #3,559 | |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,182 | 6 | #4,966 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,835 | |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,255 | 7 | #4,228 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,299 | 10 | #3,267 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,231 | 18 | #2,174 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,696 | 5 | #4,734 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,913 | 12 | #2,512 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,524 | 14 | #2,210 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,708 | 16 | #2,010 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,709 | 23 | #1,648 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,960 | 21 | #1,769 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,330 | 31 | #1,414 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,865 | 28 | #1,498 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,501 | 15 | #2,188 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,041 | 29 | #1,504 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,177 | 24 | #1,643 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,708 | 14 | #2,222 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,576 | 15 | #2,147 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,987 | 13 | #2,324 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,472 | 15 | #2,098 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,846 | 17 | #1,927 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,874 | 5 | #4,100 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,304 | 6 | #3,564 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,200 | 5 | #3,997 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,698 | 13 | #2,156 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,638 | 6 | #3,524 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,474 | 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 Kriss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 932 Americans recorded as Kriss, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kriss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kriss, and how old are they?
An estimated 780 Americans named Kriss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 52 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,053 people named Kriss (497 women and girls, 556 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 818 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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 Kriss?
Kriss is a less common spelling of Kris: SSA has recorded 932 Kriss and 27,971 Kris since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 34,230 babies since 1880, Kriss is the third most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 81 babies recorded by SSA was a Kriss (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kriss
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kriss and names like it
- Compare Kriss and KrisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKriss peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kriss since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Kriss.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kriss alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.