How popular is “Chris” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chris” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Chris” 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 “Chris” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Chris” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chris” 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
1880	49	0.000243195		49	-100%
1881	52	0.000269866		52	-100%
1882	39	0.000176046		39	-100%
1883	47	0.000216644		47	-100%
1884	57	0.000234124		57	-100%
1885	50	0.000207595		50	-100%
1886	62	0.000242836		62	-100%
1887	46	0.00018594		46	-100%
1888	59	0.000197012		59	-100%
1889	42	0.000145356		42	-100%
1890	32	0.000106171		32	-100%
1891	32	0.000111625		32	-100%
1892	49	0.000146543		49	-100%
1893	40	0.000122993		40	-100%
1894	45	0.000132865		45	-100%
1895	41	0.000116802		41	-100%
1896	53	0.000148258		53	-100%
1897	35	0.000100877		35	-100%
1898	33	0.000086511		33	-100%
1899	36	0.000106121		36	-100%
1900	45	0.000099943		45	-100%
1901	26	0.000075185		26	-100%
1902	37	0.000095673		37	-100%
1903	35	0.000091815		35	-100%
1904	27	0.000066917		27	-100%
1905	25	0.000058973		25	-100%
1906	30	0.00007002		30	-100%
1907	29	0.000062313		29	-100%
1908	37	0.000075719		37	-100%
1909	48	0.000093892		48	-100%
1910	32	0.000054172		32	-100%
1911	43	0.000066741		43	-100%
1912	76	0.000076918		76	-100%
1913	81	0.000071233		81	-100%
1914	134	0.00009461	8	126	-88%
1915	145	0.00007913		145	-100%
1916	148	0.000076509		148	-100%
1917	151	0.000075246	6	145	-92%
1918	179	0.000082446		179	-100%
1919	135	0.000063974	7	128	-90%
1920	191	0.000084415	11	180	-88%
1921	153	0.000065539	6	147	-92%
1922	181	0.000079068	12	169	-87%
1923	169	0.000073399	14	155	-83%
1924	192	0.000080618	14	178	-85%
1925	189	0.000081001	7	182	-93%
1926	181	0.000078836	13	168	-86%
1927	168	0.000072434	15	153	-82%
1928	184	0.000081382	20	164	-78%
1929	187	0.000085304	16	171	-83%
1930	186	0.00008366	14	172	-85%
1931	169	0.000080308	15	154	-82%
1932	230	0.000108938	22	208	-81%
1933	159	0.000079522	17	142	-79%
1934	195	0.000093894	14	181	-86%
1935	201	0.000096177	19	182	-81%
1936	210	0.000101079	20	190	-81%
1937	222	0.000104193	26	196	-77%
1938	254	0.000114798	26	228	-80%
1939	276	0.000125259	30	246	-78%
1940	349	0.000151562	32	317	-82%
1941	365	0.00014981	44	321	-76%
1942	453	0.000165824	70	383	-69%
1943	549	0.000194504	102	447	-63%
1944	635	0.000236053	106	529	-67%
1945	680	0.000256322	129	551	-62%
1946	1029	0.000322035	202	827	-61%
1947	1438	0.000399187	322	1116	-55%
1948	1615	0.000467775	329	1286	-59%
1949	1630	0.000467749	241	1389	-70%
1950	1468	0.000419027	219	1249	-70%
1951	1752	0.000475604	278	1474	-68%
1952	2014	0.000530278	328	1686	-67%
1953	1913	0.000496413	334	1579	-65%
1954	2175	0.000546385	374	1801	-66%
1955	2646	0.000659015	453	2193	-66%
1956	3146	0.00076303	613	2533	-61%
1957	4272	0.001016624	1020	3252	-52%
1958	5796	0.001402064	1340	4456	-54%
1959	7087	0.001704428	1409	5678	-60%
1960	8007	0.001927626	1511	6496	-62%
1961	8772	0.002117664	1568	7204	-64%
1962	8312	0.002059785	1520	6792	-63%
1963	7753	0.001958719	1424	6329	-63%
1964	7015	0.001804453	1377	5638	-61%
1965	6569	0.001811913	1089	5480	-67%
1966	6117	0.001759956	860	5257	-72%
1967	5349	0.0015756	729	4620	-73%
1968	4917	0.001455417	668	4249	-73%
1969	4810	0.001384044	528	4282	-78%
1970	4919	0.001363921	458	4461	-81%
1971	4616	0.001344849	324	4292	-86%
1972	3749	0.001192812	276	3473	-85%
1973	2941	0.000974846	238	2703	-84%
1974	2482	0.000816448	204	2278	-84%
1975	2156	0.000714051	201	1955	-81%
1976	1786	0.000588604	188	1598	-79%
1977	1658	0.000521959	162	1496	-80%
1978	1468	0.000462527	129	1339	-82%
1979	1383	0.00041569	119	1264	-83%
1980	1094	0.000317607	104	990	-81%
1981	906	0.000261897	76	830	-83%
1982	797	0.000227197	84	713	-79%
1983	701	0.000202406	50	651	-86%
1984	685	0.000196345	58	627	-83%
1985	666	0.000186601	52	614	-84%
1986	592	0.000166429	56	536	-81%
1987	551	0.000152817	37	514	-87%
1988	541	0.000146412	44	497	-84%
1989	568	0.000147746	29	539	-90%
1990	519	0.00013131	30	489	-88%
1991	549	0.00014094	39	510	-86%
1992	486	0.000126521	24	462	-90%
1993	474	0.00012572	28	446	-88%
1994	470	0.000126424	28	442	-88%
1995	513	0.000140081	24	489	-91%
1996	581	0.0001593	29	552	-90%
1997	551	0.000151969	19	532	-93%
1998	615	0.000167201	16	599	-95%
1999	638	0.000172719	15	623	-95%
2000	671	0.000177518	20	651	-94%
2001	715	0.000191003	20	695	-94%
2002	707	0.000189124	15	692	-96%
2003	692	0.000181994	14	678	-96%
2004	685	0.000179276	10	675	-97%
2005	732	0.000190385	9	723	-98%
2006	851	0.000215106	9	842	-98%
2007	925	0.000231384	16	909	-97%
2008	955	0.000242961	12	943	-97%
2009	871	0.000228	10	861	-98%
2010	729	0.000197254	8	721	-98%
2011	581	0.000158839		581	-100%
2012	660	0.000180458	12	648	-96%
2013	635	0.000174179	11	624	-97%
2014	545	0.000147044	7	538	-97%
2015	575	0.000155367	8	567	-97%
2016	520	0.00014174	6	514	-98%
2017	463	0.000129467	5	458	-98%
2018	446	0.000126852	6	440	-97%
2019	490	0.000141172		490	-100%
2020	391	0.000117046	9	382	-95%
2021	422	0.000124559	10	412	-95%
2022	413	0.000122076	6	407	-97%
2023	344	0.00010389	14	330	-92%
2024	430	0.000129187	7	423	-97%

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