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Gregoire

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gregoire has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 2001, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Gregoire, 2017

1 in 596,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gregoire: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gregoire means

Gregoire is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gregoire is used in Old French.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 84 boys were recorded with the name Gregoire between 1973 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2001; its best national rank was #5,376 in 1973.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gregoire?

Gregoire had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gregoire 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gregoire. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gregoires were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gregoire was born before 1993 — so the typical Gregoire is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
84
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Gregoire 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (8)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,376
1973

Spellings of Gregoire

Gregoire is not the most common spelling — Gregory is, with 99.8% against Gregoire's 0.01%.

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.

Gregoire around the world

Where Gregoire 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
    1996–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • France
    1900–2025
    #542
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,144
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gregoire 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
#5,376
1973
Peak year
2001
8 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gregoire

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

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Sibling names for Gregoire

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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