Kris

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kris: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kris: Recorded since 1978, it reached #254 in 1988, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
47years from first to last
#254highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#755
1997	#788
1998	#958
1999	#1505
2000	#953
2001	#1949
2002	#1190
2003	#1513
2004	#3651
2005	#1456
2006	#1744
2007	#1885
2008	#1206
2009	#1425
2010	#2199
2011	#3300
2012	#1962
2013	#2660
2014	#3362
2015	#4747
2016	#2804
2017	#2052
2018	#2259
2019	#3013
2020	#3848
2021	#4789
2022	#4001
2023	#3112
2024	#3688

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 14 of the 33 years from 1978 to 2010.

In 2015: #415 among boys in Northern Ireland, #4747 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1978–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1978
First recorded at #283 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1978 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1978–2010
Highest recorded position: #254 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1988 (recorded 1978–2010).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kris appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 275 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1978.

Kris across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kris's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#283 (1978)	#254 (1988)	#720 (2010)	14 of 33	52 (1978–2010)	5 (1982)
England and Wales · Boys	#755 (1996)	#755 (1996)	#3688 (2024)	29 of 29	275 (1996–2024)	20 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#277 (1999)	#277 (1999)	#415 (2015)	6 of 17	19 (1999–2015)	4 (2008)

Kris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kris in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	63	4 of 10	16
2000sbusiest	117	10 of 10	12
2010s	73	10 of 10	7
2020s	22	5 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kris appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1978 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #254 in Republic of Ireland in 1988.

Kris's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2259	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1425	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1206	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1513	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1190	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#953	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#788	20	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#755	20	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#328	4	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#341	3	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#280	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#302	4	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#254	5	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#272	4	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#268	5	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1978 and 2024, ranked in 39 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #254, first reached in 1988.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 21 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Kray · #1167, 24y
Krish · #294, 26y
Krisha · #988, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Leanna · #253, 41y
Sylwester · #252, 36y
Katharine · #258, 37y
Adelina · #247, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Aodan · #254, 20y
Glynn · #254, 13y
Pierre · #254, 35y
Roma · #254, 30y

Kris was ranked #254 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1988. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kris and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kris without appearing here.

Kris moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4001 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4789 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #5119.
Graeme Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3651 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1744 and #2870.

Moved ahead of Kris

Ronny Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1513 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #906.
Filip Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1513 and #1771 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #1160.
Anders Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3848 and #4608 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #2301.
Conan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2199 and #3332 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #3300 and #1342.

Moved the opposite way to Kris

Aaron Compare
Between 1978 and 2010 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kris went from #283 to #720 while Aaron went from #111 to #13.
Adam Compare
Between 1978 and 2010 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kris went from #283 to #720 while Adam went from #121 to #7.
Alex Compare
Between 1978 and 2010 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kris went from #283 to #720 while Alex went from #255 to #8.
Alexander Compare
Between 1978 and 2010 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kris went from #283 to #720 while Alexander went from #134 to #51.

Moved the same way as Kris

Adrian Compare
Between 1978 and 2010 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kris went from #283 to #720 and Adrian from #43 to #110.
Denis Compare
Between 1978 and 2010 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kris went from #283 to #720 and Denis from #57 to #178.
Edward Compare
Between 1978 and 2010 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kris went from #283 to #720 and Edward from #32 to #100.
Francis Compare
Between 1978 and 2010 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Kris went from #283 to #720 and Francis from #48 to #234.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1978 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #254 in Republic of Ireland in 1988. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kris

Kris at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kris across 3 official records

Kris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kris appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Kris at a glance

Kris across 3 official records

Kris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kris appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Kris

Kris and the names beside it

Kris moved ahead of

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