Cris

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Alternative form of kris (“dagger”)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kɹɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 45K(measured from records)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 281as Chris
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 351as Chris

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cris itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

366,260 named Chris, 2020

#147 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
666 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ChrisLatin(measured from records)
כריסHebrew(measured from records)
КрысCyrillic(measured from records)
คริสThai(measured from records)
ΧρηςGreek(measured from records)
크리스Hangul(measured from records)
করিসBengali(measured from records)
ქრისGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chris in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Alternative form of kris (“dagger”).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cris counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Cris is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#67366,260as Chris1 in 908346KChris666
GB United Kingdom#65≈190,000 est.≈1 in 3526Chris437
NG Nigeria#450≈120,000 est.≈1 in 1.8KlistedChris122
CA Canada#40≈100,000 est.≈1 in 3678Chris379
AU Australia#36≈91,000 est.≈1 in 2814Chris350
GR Greece#76≈23,000 est.≈1 in 456—Chris148
NZ New Zealand#40≈14,000 est.≈1 in 35113Chris217
BR Brazil—4,7161 in 45K4.7KCris127

366,260 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cris is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Çrïs, Crís, Čris, Çris, Crìs

  • French given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Crïs, Crìs, Çrïš, Črîs, Čřïs

  • Italian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Çris, Crîs, Čris

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cris is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, genitive singular of crios

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dlm, cherry

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Cris Agterberg, b. 1883Cris Huerta, b. 1935Cris Williamson, b. 1947Cris Collinsworth, b. 1959Cris Carter, b. 1965Cris Campion, b. 1966Cris Judd, b. 1969Cris Velasco, b. 1974Cris Vianna, b. 1977Cris Cab, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Cris,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 50 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Cris
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224.7K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.5K#3,450
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—4.2K#3,728
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.5K#2,856
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#3,450
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#2,856
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020172—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202514—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20246—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)20175—
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20221#2,090
AU AustraliaSA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)19991—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cris mean, and where does it come from?
Alternative form of kris (“dagger”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Cris?
A machine transcription gives /kɹɪs/ (IPA) for English.
Is Cris a male or female name?
Cris is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Cris have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 366 thousand people named Chris, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Cris most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cris is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cris?
In Brazil, the national register counted 4,716 people named Cris in 2022, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
How common is Cris compared with other names?
In the United States, Cris is the 67th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cris” — the 67th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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