Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Kriss 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 1948. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kriss through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 932
- 555 boys · 377 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 58 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 31 in 1963. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,053 as a first name in 2020; 982 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kriss’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Kriss has a related form in Kris.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
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 Kriss
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Kriss, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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40% boys · 60% girls