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Gredmarie vs Gregg

American parents have registered 36,624 Greggs since 1880, against 68 Gredmaries. Gregg is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gredmarie against Gregg, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gredmarie Gregg

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 113 years in which either name was published, Gregg for 112 years and Gredmarie for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Gredmarie Gregg
Total US births 6836,624
Most in one year 471,900
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 7028,000
Median age today 1462
Peak year 20111962
Best rank 3,407th girls167th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 20111881
Girls / boys 68 / 0112 / 36,512

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Greggs alive today are over 62; half the Gredmaries are over 14. That is 48 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gredmarie and Gregg.