How popular is “Kris” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kris” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kris” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kris” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kris” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kris” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kris” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kris” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1937	5	0.000002347		5	-100%
1939	6	0.000002723		6	-100%
1940	17	0.000007383	8	9	-6%
1941	18	0.000007388	8	10	-11%
1942	21	0.000007687	13	8	24%
1943	35	0.0000124	16	19	-9%
1944	69	0.00002565	33	36	-4%
1945	71	0.000026763	45	26	27%
1946	122	0.000038181	69	53	13%
1947	161	0.000044693	101	60	25%
1948	210	0.000060825	116	94	10%
1949	201	0.000057679	94	107	-6%
1950	210	0.000059942	104	106	-1%
1951	294	0.00007981	149	145	1%
1952	370	0.00009742	154	216	-17%
1953	351	0.000091083	158	193	-10%
1954	391	0.000098224	187	204	-4%
1955	499	0.000124281	260	239	4%
1956	569	0.000138005	302	267	6%
1957	777	0.000184906	419	358	8%
1958	1006	0.000243353	568	438	13%
1959	1058	0.00025445	590	468	12%
1960	1043	0.000251094	576	467	10%
1961	1122	0.000270864	619	503	10%
1962	1103	0.000273333	590	513	7%
1963	1238	0.000312768	734	504	19%
1964	1373	0.000353174	940	433	37%
1965	1387	0.000382573	978	409	41%
1966	1227	0.000353027	870	357	42%
1967	1043	0.000307226	724	319	39%
1968	880	0.000260477	598	282	36%
1969	894	0.000257242	529	365	18%
1970	852	0.000236239	437	415	3%
1971	719	0.000209477	322	397	-10%
1972	672	0.000213809	273	399	-19%
1973	571	0.000189268	215	356	-25%
1974	583	0.000191776	167	416	-43%
1975	464	0.000153673	141	323	-39%
1976	408	0.000134463	110	298	-46%
1977	508	0.000159925	110	398	-57%
1978	511	0.000161002	131	380	-49%
1979	402	0.00012083	103	299	-49%
1980	310	0.000089998	96	214	-38%
1981	229	0.000066197	70	159	-39%
1982	182	0.000051882	57	125	-37%
1983	163	0.000047064	52	111	-36%
1984	156	0.000044715	35	121	-55%
1985	135	0.000037825	37	98	-45%
1986	116	0.000032611	24	92	-59%
1987	134	0.000037164	34	100	-49%
1988	120	0.000032476	29	91	-52%
1989	101	0.000026272	28	73	-45%
1990	109	0.000027578	30	79	-45%
1991	91	0.000023362	30	61	-34%
1992	112	0.000029157	26	86	-54%
1993	91	0.000024136	25	66	-45%
1994	81	0.000021788	14	67	-65%
1995	87	0.000023757	22	65	-49%
1996	86	0.00002358	21	65	-51%
1997	83	0.000022892	23	60	-45%
1998	76	0.000020662	13	63	-66%
1999	67	0.000018138	12	55	-64%
2000	63	0.000016667	7	56	-78%
2001	80	0.000021371	6	74	-85%
2002	88	0.00002354	16	72	-64%
2003	71	0.000018673	12	59	-66%
2004	81	0.000021199	18	63	-56%
2005	85	0.000022108	12	73	-72%
2006	97	0.000024519	10	87	-79%
2007	93	0.000023263	11	82	-76%
2008	93	0.00002366	13	80	-72%
2009	117	0.000030627	15	102	-74%
2010	66	0.000017858	16	50	-52%
2011	70	0.000019137	15	55	-57%
2012	83	0.000022694	11	72	-73%
2013	79	0.00002167	19	60	-52%
2014	80	0.000021584	17	63	-57%
2015	82	0.000022157	24	58	-41%
2016	73	0.000019898	16	57	-56%
2017	89	0.000024887	15	74	-66%
2018	87	0.000024745	14	73	-68%
2019	95	0.00002737	12	83	-75%
2020	78	0.000023349	13	65	-67%
2021	69	0.000020366	10	59	-71%
2022	39	0.000011528	5	34	-74%
2023	37	0.000011174	9	28	-51%
2024	40	0.000012017	8	32	-60%

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