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Gregg vs Gregorio

American parents have registered 36,624 Greggs since 1880, against 10,847 Gregorios. But in 2025 it was Gregorio that was commoner, 59 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gregg Gregorio

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 136 years in which either name was published, Gregorio for 86 years and Gregg for 50 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Gregg Gregorio
Total US births 36,62410,847
Most in one year 1,900187
Babies in 2025 559
Estimated living today 28,0007,800
Median age today 6235
Peak year 19621993
Best rank 167th boys765th boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th2,332nd
First recorded 18811880
Girls / boys 112 / 36,5125 / 10,842

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 Gregorios are over 35. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Gregg Gregorio
France 25315
England and Wales 7025

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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