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Chris
Pronounced /kɹɪs/
Rank in 2024
#13,154
Born in 2024
7
Peak year
1961 · #215
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:423 in 2024 (#651)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 7 girls were named Chris, about 1 in every 230,455.
- It peaked in 1961 with 1,568 babies, ranked #215.
- It first shows up in the records in 1914.
- 22,956 girls have been named Chris since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Chris per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.4Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 113 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 722 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 14,862 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,277 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Millennials: 688 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 205 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 89 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
- A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and (less commonly) Christian.
- A diminutive of the female given name (along with other variant forms) Christina.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /kɹɪs/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Chris, CC BY-SA 4.0.