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Gregg vs Greidy

American parents have registered 36,624 Greggs since 1880, against 105 Greidys. Gregg is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gregg Greidy

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 111 years and Greidy for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Gregg Greidy
Total US births 36,624105
Most in one year 1,90033
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 28,000100
Median age today 6215
Peak year 19622010
Best rank 167th boys4,397th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008thunranked
First recorded 18812009
Girls / boys 112 / 36,512105 / 0

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 Greidys are over 15. That is 47 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: Gregg and Greidy.