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Gregoria vs Gretchen

American parents have registered 53,837 Gretchens since 1880, against 2,263 Gregorias. Gretchen is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gregoria against Gretchen, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gregoria Gretchen

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

Gretchen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1903, when Gregoria had 18 and Gretchen had 39.

Side by side

  Gregoria Gretchen
Total US births 2,26353,837
Most in one year 641,351
Babies in 2025 733
Estimated living today 85042,000
Median age today 5952
Peak year 19211973
Best rank 928th girls191st girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd4,265th
First recorded 18871882
Girls / boys 2,257 / 653,799 / 38

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 Gregorias alive today are over 59; half the Gretchens are over 52. That is 7 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.

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