Čris
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Čris is a given name used for both men and women, 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. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Christopher, Christian, Christine, and their variants.
- 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 Čris 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)
- #147 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 666 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
366,260 named Chris, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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 and Cris in BR Brazil.
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)Clipping of Christopher, Christian, Christine, and their variants.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Čris 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #67 | 366,260as Chris | 1 in 908 | 346K | Chris | 666 |
| GB United Kingdom | #65 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 352 | 6 | Chris | 437 |
| NG Nigeria | #450 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Chris | 122 |
| CA Canada | #40 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 367 | 8 | Chris | 379 |
| AU Australia | #36 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 281 | 4 | Chris | 350 |
| GR Greece | #76 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 456 | — | Chris | 148 |
| NZ New Zealand | #40 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 351 | 13 | Chris | 217 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,716 | 1 in 45K | 4.7K | Cris | 127 |
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Čris mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of Christopher, Christian, Christine, and their variants. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Čris a male or female name?
- Čris is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Čris 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 Čris most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čris 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 Čris?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,716 people named Čris in 2022, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Čris compared with other names?
- In the United States, Čris is the 67th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%8DrisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Čris” — the 67th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.