Is Kris a male or female name?
Kris is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 56%, based on 30,653 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 56%
- Sample size
- 30,653
- Confidence
- high
Kris by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 51% | 27,919 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | male | 100% | 1,277 | nrs |
| France FR | male | 98% | 755 | insee |
| Canada CA | male | 100% | 335 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | male | 96% | 182 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 96% | 89 | pesel |
| Ireland IE | male | 100% | 52 | cso |
| Austria AT | male | 100% | 44 | statat |
Attested in 64 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Kris over time
In the United States, 54.4% of the babies named Kris in the 1940s were girls, against 16.8% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 0% of the babies named Kris in the 1990s were girls, against 0% in the 2010s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 54% | 925 | — | |
| 1950s | 52% | 5,522 | — | |
| 1960s | 63% | 11,310 | — | |
| 1970s | 35% | 5,693 | — | |
| 1980s | 28% | 1,644 | — | |
| 1990s | 24% | 883 | 0% | 110 |
| 2000s | 14% | 866 | 4% | 275 |
| 2010s | 20% | 803 | 0% | 215 |
| 2020s | 17% | 262 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Kris with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Kris&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Kris
Is Kris a male or female name?
Kris is predominantly associated with male records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns male at 56%, based on 30,653 observations.
Why can the result for Kris change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Kris identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.