girls:
150 births since 1947
#5566 (3rd percentile)
boys:
508 births since 1914
#4078 (11th percentile)
overall:
658 births since 1914
#7081 (8th percentile)
The name Chriss is the #7,081 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 658 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 8.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,078 (11.0% percentile) for all time with 508 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,566 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 150 births since 1947.
Chriss first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1947 for girls). Birth data for Chriss is available in 65 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 19 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Chriss has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Chriss were boys.
For boys, Chriss reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #652) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 9 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Chriss ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 43.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Chriss reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #759) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chriss".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Chriss is pronounced as krihs, which has 1 syllables.
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