Greg
Greg reached its high-water mark in 1961 at number 77, and has been recorded 77,849 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,707th. About 61,000 Gregs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Greg boys named Greg
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 77,849
- Estimated living today
- 61,000
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 77th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,707th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 143 / 77,706
How old the living Gregs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 77,849 babies given the name since 1915, about 61,000 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 620 of them are children and 19,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English, Scottish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Gregs
- Greg Abbott (born 1957)Governor of Texas since 2015
- Greg Winter (born 1951)British biochemist
- Greg Kinnear (born 1963)American actor
- Greg Louganis (born 1960)American Olympic springboard and platform diver
- Greg Van Avermaet (born 1985)Belgian cyclist
- Greg Lake (1947–2016)English bassist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer
- Greg Bear (1951–2022)American writer best known for science fiction
- Greg LeMond (born 1961)American racing cyclist
People named Greg with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Greg is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Greg is most concentrated in Montana (2.2×), Oregon (2.1×), Minnesota (1.9×), Washington (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1961
The most popular boys’ names the year Greg peaked:
Greg elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Greg | 3,376 | 46th |
| France boys | Greg | 795 | 537th |
| England and Wales boys | Greg | 450 | 341st |
| Ireland boys | Greg | 226 | 169th |
| Belgium boys | Greg | 68 | 729th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Greg | 3 | 277th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Greg: rank by region
In 2017, Greg was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Greg | 869 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Greg among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Greg | 7 | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Greg against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.