Cris

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Cris is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 65th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative form of kris (“dagger”).

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 369◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 378
  • CACanada1 in 393

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈360K ●

across 9 countries

#288 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
599 ●

6.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 962 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

ChrisLatin · English●6.9M records
כריסHebrew · Hebrew●455 records
คริสThai · Thai●262 records
КрысCyrillic · Russian●244 records
크리스Hangul · Korean●31 records
ΚριςGreek · Greek●5 records
করিসBengali · Bangla●2 records
ᲥრისGeorgian · Georgian●2 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chris in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 16 more, Krish in IN India and Kris in BE Belgium.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Alternative form of kris (“dagger”).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Cris is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#65519,360452K rec.—6Chris331
US United States#68345,6815.1M rec.1 in 962346KChris599
AU Australia#63306,541287K rec.—4Chris333
CA Canada#48211,538195K rec.—8Chris288
PH Philippines#145128,05079K rec.—19KCris147
DE Germany#24397,02192K rec.—1Chris247
IT Italy#31726,00926K rec.—26Chris129
NZ New Zealand#2423,18318K rec.—13Chris172
IN India—23,12926K rec.—1Krish153
RU Russia#95920,34820K rec.——Chris91
NG Nigeria#38819,10325K rec.—listedChris121
MX Mexico—16,96017K rec.—1Cris98

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish110K31%
  • English100K28%
  • Portuguese87K25%
  • 10K3%
  • French5.9K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish110,17031%
English99,71228%
Portuguese86,78825%
10,0193%
French5,8902%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Cris is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name121K records spelled Cris27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written Crïs, Čris, Crís, Çris, Crìs

  • French given name7.1K records spelled Cris16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Crïs, Çrïš, Crìs, Çris, Crîs

  • German given name2.6K records spelled Cris11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Philippines

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Kreisch, Črïš, Çřïş, Crïs, Çrìš

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Cris is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, genitive singular of crios

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dlm, cherry

    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.

Over time●

050100150190019502000115 · 1960

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Cris in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1885–2025
Yearrecords
18855
19126
19167
19188
19196
19226
19237
19246
19255
19295
19335
19346
19355
19386
19395
19418
19428
19438
19448
194514
194615
194723
194841
194934
195022
195136
195266
195346
195456
195563
195667
195774
195896
195998
1960115
1961105
196296
196384
196481
196569
196683
196756
196857
196960
197062
197154
197243
197336
197441
197522
197635
197727
197821
197920
198023
198114
198230
198324
198417
198511
198618
198713
198818
198922
199014
199118
19929
199318
199411
199521
199625
199713
199818
199929
200024
200124
200216
200331
200431
200533
200642
200744
200829
200933
201028
201138
201228
201323
201419
201523
201616
201722
201817
201915
202010
202112
202224
202323
202415
202514

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 100 years between 1885–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Cris Agterberg, b. 1883Cris Huerta, b. 1935Cris Williamson, b. 1947Cris Collinsworth, b. 1959Cris Carter, b. 1965Cris Campion, b. 1966Cris Judd, b. 1969Cris Velasco, b. 1974Cris Vianna, b. 1977Cris Cab, b. 1993

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 49 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Cris
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202219K#378
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224.7K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.5K#3,450
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—4.2K#3,728
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—3.5K#2,856
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.6K#3,450
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#2,856
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—200#2,891
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020172—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—154#6,321
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—118#1,957
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—47#8,513

Reference works 2

  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 434 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cris?
We estimate roughly 360 thousand people bear Cris (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Cris have the most bearers?
Cris is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled chris.
How common is Cris compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Cris is the 65th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Cris a male or female name?
Cris 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.
What does the name Cris mean?
Recorded meaning: Alternative form of kris (“dagger”).
Query this name via API
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Cris” — the 65th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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