Krys
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Krys has been given to 64 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1964, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% girls, 27% boys all-time.
Babies named Krys, 2014
1 in 741,000
Krys over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Krys over time
In 2020, Krys went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Krys?
Krys had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 741,000
- 5 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,874 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Krys sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Krys. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kryss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Krys was born before 1964 — so the typical Krys is around 61 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 51.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 10.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 47
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 51.1% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Krys rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1964 (8)
- Years since peak
- 61
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Krys
Krys is not the most common spelling — Iris is, with 29.1% against Krys's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Krys around the world
Where Krys ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2000–2000#4,472in 2000
- South Australia1990–1990#691in 1990
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Krys by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Krys
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Krys
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.