girls:
13.6k births since 1940
#1332 (77th percentile)
boys:
14.3k births since 1937
#973 (79th percentile)
overall:
27.9k births since 1937
#1524 (80th percentile)
The name Kris is the #1,524 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,883 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 80.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #973 (78.8% percentile) for all time with 14,329 births since 1937. For girls, it ranks #1,332 (76.7% percentile) for all time with 13,554 births since 1940.
Kris first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (1937 for boys and 1940 for girls). Birth data for Kris is available in 86 out of the 87 years between 1937 and 2023 (86 years for boys and 84 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 Kris is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 75.7% of babies named Kris were boys.
For boys, Kris reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 50.2% percentile (ranked #328) with 244 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 255 births per million (ranked 46.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kris ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 6.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kris reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 64.7% percentile (ranked #268) with 535 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 535 births per million (ranked 64.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kris ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kris".
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