Krïss
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Krïss 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. Recorded meaning: probably a variant of Swiss German Kries, Alemannic form of Kirsch ‘cherry’.
- LVLatvia1 in 51K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 86K
- USUnited States1 in 316K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
1,053 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kriss in US United States, CR Costa Rica, EC Ecuador.
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)probably a variant of Swiss German Kries, Alemannic form of Kirsch ‘cherry’.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krïss 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 | 1,053 | 1 in 316K | 1.5K | Kriss | 58 |
| CR Costa Rica | 59 | 1 in 86K | 59 | Kriss | 16 |
| LV Latvia | 37 | 1 in 51K | 37 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 26 | 1 in 392K | 26 | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 741K | 4 | Kriss | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
1,053 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 Krïss mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a variant of Swiss German Kries, Alemannic form of Kirsch ‘cherry’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
- Is Krïss a male or female name?
- Krïss 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 Krïss have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Krïss, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kriss.
- Where is Krïss most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Krïss is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Krïss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,053 people named Krïss in 2020, about 1 in 316 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kr%C3%AFssThe 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, “Krïss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.