Kris

Where Kris comes from

Kris hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1937
    First appearance
    #3,518 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1963
    Peak, #343
    504 babies named Kris — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1971
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #589.
  5. 1985
    Kris Allen born
    American musician and singer-songwriter
  6. 1990
    Kris Wu born
    Chinese-born Canadian rapper and convicted sex criminal
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kris Wu · Chinese-born Canadian rapper and convicted sex criminal, born 1990
  • Kris Allen · American musician and singer-songwriter, born 1985
  • Kris Boyd · Scottish association football player, born 1983
  • Kris Humphries · American basketball player, born 1985
  • Kris Marshall · English actor, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.