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Greggory

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Greggory has been given to 5,107 babies in the U.S. since 1940. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1963, with 168 recorded.

Babies named Greggory, 2024

1 in 557,000

Greggory over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Greggory: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Greggory means

Greggory is a given name.

The naming story behind Greggory

Wikidata records Greggory as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q110529601, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,107 boys were recorded with the name Greggory between 1940 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 168 in 1963; its best national rank was #605 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes 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.

How common is Greggory?

Greggory had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Greggory 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Greggory. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Greggorys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Greggory was born before 1976 — so the typical Greggory is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,984
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (1,157).

Is Greggory 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (168)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#605
1963

Spellings of Greggory

Greggory is not the most common spelling — Gregory is, with 99.1% against Greggory's 0.71%.

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 Greggory is used

Across 1910–2025, Greggory was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 75,167 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Ohio1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 100,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 100,000

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. Greggory has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Greggory around the world

Where Greggory 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1997
    #1,557
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1965–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Greggory

People whose public names include Greggory, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Greggory in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Greggory. Linked forms have their own page here.

GregoryGrigorije

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Greggory by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#605
1963
Peak year
1963
168 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
5,107
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Greggory

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

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Names with a curve like Greggory

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

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Sibling names for Greggory

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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