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Good point. The name Chris can be short for Christopher or Christine but it seems as if though most people named Chris are male simply because the name Christopher became very popular beginning in the 1970s and lasted until the early 2000s (the younger women and girls preferred to be called either Chrissy or Christy simply because the younger generation saw Chris as a boy's name). The name Christopher peaked in the 1980s as 554, 725 baby boys were named Christopher. Even the name Kris, which had been mainly used as a shortened version of Kristina or Kristine is now mainly used as a shortened version of Kristopher (20,068 baby boys were named Kristopher in the 1980s). Same thing for Pat (short for Patrick) and Sam (short for Samuel) while younger females named Patricia preferred Patty/Patti/Trish/Tricia and Samantha preferred Sammi. Your thoughts?