Kriss: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Arms linked to Criss and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Ancestors listed as Kriss are often found as Criss a generation earlier. Its meaning, shared with Criss, is “A descendant of Crist”.

Kriss writes “k” in place of the “c” found in Criss, a typical scribal difference. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Crissy and Crissey. According to the 2010 US Census, the Kriss surname had 1,462 bearers.

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