Meaning not yet researched.
Cris: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #725 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #725 in 1960; #6,196 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cris in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,196 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #725.
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Cris: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #725 in 1960 · most boys in one year: 115 (1960).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Cris, making it the 6,196th most common boys’ name of the year, down 231 places from #5,965 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 15 boys named Cris in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #725, reached in 1960. That year also had the most boys given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #4,319 in 2015 and #1,578 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Cris in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,269, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 75. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #3,473 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cris in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 4,127 US babies have been given the name, 27% of them girls and 73% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,264 babies named Cris.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 168 US boys were named Cris; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Chris (170,417 babies since 1880), Cristina (52,698 babies since 1880), Kris (27,971 babies since 1880) and Cristiano (3,898 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Crispina and Cress are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Crispina (23), Cress (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cris in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 14 | #6,196 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,859 | 15 | #5,965 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,483 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,328 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,788 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,628 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #5,872 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,362 |
| 2017 | — | — | 22 | #4,498 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,604 |
| 2015 | — | — | 23 | #4,319 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #4,913 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,206 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,733 |
| 2011 | — | — | 38 | #3,006 |
| 2010 | — | — | 28 | #3,731 |
| 2009 | — | — | 33 | #3,349 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,842 | 29 | #3,664 |
| 2007 | — | — | 44 | #2,726 |
| 2006 | — | — | 42 | #2,752 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,099 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,071 | 31 | #3,171 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,055 |
| 2002 | — | — | 16 | #4,745 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,886 | 24 | #3,526 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,577 | 24 | #3,444 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,877 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,872 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,712 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,940 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,212 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,165 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,532 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #5,735 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,352 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,013 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,805 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #2,988 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,567 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,310 | 18 | #2,803 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,007 | 11 | #3,844 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,379 | 17 | #2,720 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,152 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,830 | 30 | #1,862 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,915 | 14 | #3,067 |
| 1980 | — | — | 23 | #2,230 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,828 | 20 | #2,396 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,039 | 21 | #2,216 |
| 1977 | — | — | 27 | #1,866 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,445 | 35 | #1,544 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,398 | 22 | #2,077 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,068 | 41 | #1,337 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,363 | 36 | #1,405 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,175 | 43 | #1,264 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,539 | 54 | #1,113 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,405 | 62 | #1,034 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,463 | 60 | #992 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,807 | 57 | #973 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,982 | 56 | #971 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,199 | 83 | #801 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,600 | 69 | #882 |
| 1964 | 60 | #1,462 | 81 | #847 |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,629 | 84 | #826 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,675 | 96 | #776 |
| 1961 | 66 | #1,378 | 105 | #751 |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,269 | 115 | #725 |
| 1959 | 63 | #1,351 | 98 | #774 |
| 1958 | 57 | #1,409 | 96 | #756 |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,292 | 74 | #880 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,640 | 67 | #910 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,618 | 63 | #943 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,085 | 56 | #998 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,588 | 46 | #1,078 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,946 | 66 | #866 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,973 | 36 | #1,222 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,473 | 22 | #1,578 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,537 | 34 | #1,230 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,398 | 41 | #1,109 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,498 | 23 | #1,565 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,530 | 15 | #1,897 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,870 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,676 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,776 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,756 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,698 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,242 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,773 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,361 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,753 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,082 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,343 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,975 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,536 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,950 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,826 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,164 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,242 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,340 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #971 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).