Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Khris isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Khris through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 393
- 347 boys · 46 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,051 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +48%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,051 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 30 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 741 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Khris’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Khris
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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