Kris Jenner’s surname before she married Robert Kardashian was Houghton.
Kris was born Kristen Mary Houghton on November 5, 1955, in San Diego, California. She married Robert Kardashian in 1978, and the couple had four children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob. After their divorce, she married Bruce Jenner in 1991 and became known professionally as Kris Jenner.
The surname Houghton is therefore part of her birth name, while Kardashian and Jenner came from later family chapters. Kris and Bruce later had two daughters, Kendall and Kylie Jenner. Bruce Jenner publicly came out as Caitlyn Jenner in 2015.
People sometimes answer Jenner because that is the name most associated with Kris’s public career. Others may incorrectly use Kardashian, which was her married surname during the childhood years of her first four children. Houghton is the precise surname requested before that marriage.