Kris
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #3,181 for boys in 2025, 37 births
Given to boys 51.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 504 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,400since 1937
Kris over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #3,181 | 37 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #3,883 | 28 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #3,412 | 34 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #2,321 | 59 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #2,139 | 65 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 | #1,994 | 73 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #1,935 | 74 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #2,305 | 57 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #2,253 | 59 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #2,182 | 60 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #1,959 | 72 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #2,467 | 50 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | #1,581 | 102 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | #1,825 | 80 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #1,781 | 82 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #1,638 | 87 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #1,790 | 73 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | #1,934 | 63 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #1,962 | 59 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #1,647 | 72 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #1,600 | 74 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #1,875 | 56 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #1,801 | 55 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #1,642 | 63 |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | #1,657 | 60 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | #1,533 | 65 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 | #1,477 | 65 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #1,434 | 67 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 | #1,431 | 66 |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 | #1,210 | 86 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 | #1,452 | 61 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 | #1,238 | 79 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 | #1,268 | 73 |
| 1988 | #3,306 | 29 | #1,032 | 91 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 | #943 | 100 |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 | #954 | 92 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | #917 | 98 |
| 1984 | #2,625 | 35 | #793 | 121 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 | #827 | 111 |
| 1982 | #1,873 | 57 | #788 | 125 |
| 1981 | #1,641 | 70 | #686 | 159 |
| 1980 | #1,318 | 96 | #589 | 214 |
| 1979 | #1,245 | 103 | #476 | 299 |
| 1978 | #1,037 | 131 | #397 | 380 |
| 1977 | #1,146 | 110 | #395 | 398 |
| 1976 | #1,098 | 110 | #453 | 298 |
| 1975 | #917 | 141 | #438 | 323 |
| 1974 | #807 | 167 | #377 | 416 |
| 1973 | #692 | 215 | #416 | 356 |
| 1972 | #586 | 273 | #394 | 399 |
| 1971 | #556 | 322 | #405 | 397 |
| 1970 | #470 | 437 | #393 | 415 |
| 1969 | #415 | 529 | #415 | 365 |
| 1968 | #371 | 598 | #456 | 282 |
| 1967 | #326 | 724 | #426 | 319 |
| 1966 | #289 | 870 | #397 | 357 |
| 1965 | #277 | 978 | #383 | 409 |
| 1964 | #302 | 940 | #380 | 433 |
| 1963 | #350 | 734 | #343 | 504 |
| 1962 | #389 | 590 | #346 | 513 |
| 1961 | #388 | 620 | #355 | 501 |
| 1960 | #398 | 575 | #362 | 469 |
| 1959 | #390 | 590 | #361 | 467 |
| 1958 | #385 | 568 | #371 | 439 |
| 1957 | #462 | 419 | #409 | 358 |
| 1956 | #537 | 302 | #463 | 267 |
| 1955 | #566 | 260 | #474 | 239 |
| 1954 | #683 | 187 | #508 | 204 |
| 1953 | #723 | 158 | #501 | 193 |
| 1952 | #717 | 154 | #472 | 216 |
| 1951 | #715 | 149 | #573 | 145 |
| 1950 | #869 | 104 | #674 | 106 |
| 1949 | #915 | 94 | #664 | 107 |
| 1948 | #801 | 116 | #688 | 94 |
| 1947 | #875 | 101 | #900 | 60 |
| 1946 | #1,015 | 69 | #911 | 53 |
| 1945 | #1,175 | 45 | #1,296 | 26 |
| 1944 | #1,401 | 33 | #1,107 | 36 |
| 1943 | #2,251 | 16 | #1,636 | 19 |
| 1942 | #2,537 | 13 | #2,712 | 8 |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | #2,333 | 10 |
| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 | #2,478 | 9 |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1937
The first year at least five boys were named Kris! It came in at #3,518, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1937–1938, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 343 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #3,181)
- 1,042 spots since 2020 (#2,139 → #3,181)
- 928 spots since 2015 (#2,253 → #3,181)
- Biggest jump: 385 spots in 1946 (#1,296 → #911)
- Biggest drop: 124 spots in 1985 (#793 → #917)
Rise & fade · boys
26 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1963 at #343 (504 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 42 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 42 yrs · run 1946–1987
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,780
- Highest: 1 in 3,780 boys born in 1974 were named Kris (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 46,164 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #343 in 1963, was only 1 in 4,030 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1960s
- 28.8% of all boys named Kris (4,152) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1971
- Mostly girls until 1970, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 11 | #3,113 (1939) | #3,316 |
| 1940s | 422 | #664 (1949) | #1,473 |
| 1950s | 2,634 | #361 (1959) | #481 |
| 1960s | 4,152 | #343 (1963) | #386 |
| 1970s | 3,681 | #377 (1974) | #414 |
| 1980s | 1,184 | #589 (1980) | #880 |
| 1990s | 667 | #1,210 (1992) | #1,488 |
| 2000s | 748 | #1,581 (2009) | #1,763 |
| 2010s | 646 | #1,823 (2019) | #2,139 |
| 2020s | 255 | #2,139 (2020) | #3,077 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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