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Chris
Pronounced /kɹɪs/
Rank in 2024
#651
Born in 2024
423
Peak year
1961 · #57
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:7 in 2024 (#13,154)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 423 boys were named Chris, about 1 in every 4,055.
- It peaked in 1961 with 7,204 babies, ranked #57.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 147,039 boys 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.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 1.7Boomers1946–64
- 1.8Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,729 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Silent: 4,782 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Boomers: 62,978 babies, 1.68 per 1,000. Gen X: 49,737 babies, 1.83 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,911 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Z: 11,373 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,585 babies, 0.26 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.