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I've seen some female Chris's in my life. It's not common, but not unheard of. Hmm.. maybe some famous girl, real or fictional, in the past?

It looks like the native Kurisu is primarily a feminine name: https://jisho.org/search/くりす%23name
I've honestly got no clue as to how Japs decide whether a name is male or female, beyond a few morphemes like 美 vs 郎. That might be the case here with 栗/久/玖.
In my language -o is for males and -a is for females, so Tomoyo and Tomoya confuse the hell out of everyone who watches Clannad.

Whether you think "Chris" is masculine or feminine will depend entirely on whether you know more Christophers or Christinas.

One of my aunts goes by Chris, I see it used all the time for both women and men. It's one of those names like Alex or Sam where you have no idea what the gender of the person is.

>>112698
I didn't know that Kurisu was a native Japanese name, guess that explains why you sometimes see girl characters named Chris.
Feels a little weird, though, since Chris is only used for males here.

>>112698
>beyond a few morphemes like 美 vs 郎.
That's mostly it, there are many common ones like 子, 男/雄, 司 etc. Actually, your Clannad example is one such case (哉/也, 世/代). There are also grammatical patterns, like when verbs are used as names, the plain form tends to be male and the 連用形 tends to be female, as in Nozomu/Nozomi. It's not that clear cut and there are plenty of exceptions, like Hikari being almost exclusively female but Hikaru being gender neutral, and there are also tons of gender neutral names in general like Sora, Asahi and so on, but most names can be guessed accurately.

KURISTINA