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Gregg

#12,678 in 2025Boys' name

Watchful or alert

Gregg has been given to 36,624 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #12,678 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 1,900 recorded.

Babies named Gregg, 2025

1 in 663,000

Gregg over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K2K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gregg: meaning, origin, and history

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English, from Greek

About Gregg

Gregg is a short form of Gregory, a Greek-rooted name meaning “watchful” or “alert.” Its doubled final g distinguishes the spelling from Greg without changing the pronunciation. Musician Gregg Allman and basketball coach Gregg Popovich give it prominent associations in two very different kinds of team performance.

From Gregory to Gregg

Gregory comes through Latin Gregorius from Greek Gregorios, related to gregoros, meaning “watchful.” The longer name became established in Christian Europe through numerous saints and church leaders.

Gregg keeps the opening of Gregory and reduces the name to one syllable, GREG. Greg is the closest alternative spelling. French Grégoire, Italian Gregorio, and German Gregor belong to the wider international family.

The final doubled consonant is a written distinction rather than an extra sound. Gregg can be used as the complete registered name, as American records show, while also retaining its familiar relationship with Gregory.

Gregg Allman and a musical partnership

Gregg Allman and his brother Duane played in several groups before forming the Allman Brothers Band. Gregg's keyboards and vocals worked alongside a lineup featuring two guitarists and two drummers.

The band came together in 1969 and moved its base to Macon, Georgia. Its music combined blues, jazz, country, and rock, with live improvisation becoming central to its identity.

At Fillmore East, released in 1971, helped document the band's performance style. The album's live setting mattered: extended exchanges among the musicians were part of what distinguished the group from a band built chiefly around short studio singles.

The Allman Brothers Band entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Gregg's name is consequently associated with both a recognizable singing voice and a larger collaborative sound.

Gregg Popovich and basketball

Popovich built the San Antonio Spurs into a championship organization, coaching teams that won five NBA titles. His rosters included players such as David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili.

A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, he also coached the American team that won gold at Tokyo 2020. The Olympic achievement added an international championship to his professional basketball record.

He received three NBA Coach of the Year honors and entered the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023. His career gives Gregg a substantial sporting connection rooted in assembling and developing teams over many seasons.

His wider coaching influence included figures such as Becky Hammon and Mike Budenholzer.

American popularity

Gregg's largest boys' count and strongest United States ranking came in 1962, when 1,900 boys received the name at #167. That concentrated mid-century peak was followed by a long decline.

There were forty-one boys named Gregg in 2000 and twenty-four in 2010. In 2025, five American boys were recorded with the spelling. These figures count Gregg separately from Greg and Gregory, preserving the history of this particular short form.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning and history draw on the references below. American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling; counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted. Existing Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA. Informal shortening suggestions are identified in the prose.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How popular is Gregg?

In 2025, Gregg ranked #12,678 among boys in the United States, with 5 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for boys in 1881; its largest annual count was 1,900 in 1962. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.

How common is Gregg?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,678
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gregg sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gregg. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Greggs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gregg was born before 1962 — so the typical Gregg is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
33,490
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (13,792).

Is Gregg rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−4,114
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,604
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,858
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
0.26%
Peak was 1962 (1,900)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#167
1962

Spellings of Gregg

Gregg is not the most common spelling — Greg is, with 61.4% against Gregg's 28.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gregg is used

Across 1910–2025, Gregg was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 2,439 boys, against 1 in 5,178 across all states with data. It was least common in Alaska (1 in 50,000).

241 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 2,439
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 2,564
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 2,632
  4. 4Hawaii1 in 2,857
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 3,030
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 3,030
  7. 7New York1 in 3,125
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 3,125

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gregg has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gregg around the world

Where Gregg ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2006
    #3,385
    in 2006
  • Scotland
    1974–2002
    #344
    in 2002
  • Ireland
    1977–1986
    #317
    in 1986
  • France
    1979–2003
    #3,929
    in 2003
  • Canada
    1991–1993
    #1,611
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1954–1984
    #328
    in 1984

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gregg by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,678
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,604
Best rank ever
#167
1962
Peak year
1962
1,900 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
36,512
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,565
1960
Peak year
1960
13 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
112
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gregg

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Gregg

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gregg, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Gregg

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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