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The CHRIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 962 24386 0 4
United States (1880 census) 111 29319 0 2
Change since 1880 +851 +4933 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 42 29392 0 3
United Kingdom 22 28355 0 0
Top States for CHRIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 150 10119 0.000 4
Indiana 53 7945 0.001 9
Florida 46 20865 0.000 3
New York 45 23766 0.000 2
New Jersey 44 12951 0.001 5
Top States for CHRIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 18 2953 0.003 29
Indiana 53 7945 0.001 9
Idaho 9 10395 0.001 7
Alabama 28 7576 0.001 6
Montana 5 16195 0.001 6

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CHRIS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHRIS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHRIS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHRIS by picking someone at random in Alaska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHRIS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CHRIS surname.

Ethnic distribution of CHRIS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 721 74.95
Black/African American 118 12.27
White (Hispanic) 50 5.2
Mixed Race 30 3.12
Native American/Alaskan 28 2.91
Asian/Pacific 15 1.56

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CHRIS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CHRIS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CHRIS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CHRIS.

Similar names to CHRIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHRIS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CHRIS

The following words are slight variants of CHRIS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.