Chris
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ,2 Short form of Christopher, and of Christine and the group of related girls’ names
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chris 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.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 281(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 351
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 352
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Sources
- 666 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 281 (inferred from the name graph)
366,260 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
,2 Short form of Christopher, and of Christine and the group of related girls’ names.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Chris, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chris 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 | 366,260 | 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 |
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). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Chris is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the male given names Christopher or (less commonly) Christian.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Chris är ursprungligen en engelsk smekform, som kvinnonamn till → Christin och → Christina; som mansnamn till → Christoffer och → Christian.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, from Zacharias
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
English: 1 (m.) Short form of CHRISTOPHER . 2 (f.) Short form of CHRISTINE and the group of related female names. Top
as a word
In Danish, a male given name from English borrowed from English
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)
- Christopher Lloydb. 1938USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1938)
- Chris Cooperb. 1951USAmerican actor (1951-)
- Chris Columbusb. 1958USAmerican filmmaker (born 1958)
- Chris Buckb. 1960USAmerican animator and film director
- Chris Cornellb. 1964USAmerican musician (1964–2017)
- Chris Williamsb. 1968CAAmerican animator, film director and screenwriter
- Chris O'Donnellb. 1970USAmerican actor
- Chris Terriob. 1976USAmerican film director
- Chris Hughesb. 1983USAmerican entrepreneur
- Chris Woodb. 1991NZNew Zealand association football player
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)
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 110 sources across 61 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 346K | #134 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21K | #134 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 431 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 40 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 8 | #537 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2022 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 are other forms of the name Chris?
- In the etymology graph, Tina, Christophe and Kristen are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Christopher.
- Is Chris a male or female name?
- Chris 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.
- How common is the name Chris?
- In the United States, the national register counted 366,260 people named Chris in 2020, about 1 in 908 residents.
- How common is Chris compared with other names?
- In the United States, Chris is the 67th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Chris mean, and where does it come from?
- ,2 Short form of Christopher, and of Christine and the group of related girls’ names. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Chris?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Chris 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 it is most often spelled chris.
What do you want to know about Chris?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chrisThe 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, “Chris” — the 67th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.