Gregg

At the 2020 census, 24,054 Americans bore the surname Gregg — 1,442nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,400.

By the numbers

People: 24,054
Rank: 1,442nd
How common: 1 in 12,400
Per 100,000: 8.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gregg described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.8%
Black, not Hispanic 10.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Gregg

Clark Gregg (born 1962)American actor, screenwriter and director
Clark Gregg (1923–2000)American economist
Harry Gregg (1932–2020)Northern Irish footballer and manager
Judd Gregg (born 1947)American politician
Duncan Gregg (1910–1989)American rower
Virginia Gregg (1916–1986)American actress
Jessica Gregg (born 1988)Canadian speed skater
John Robert Gregg (1867–1948)Irish inventor and writer

People named Gregg with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gregg

Also a first name

Gregg has been given to 36,624 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1962. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.