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Gregor

#8,477 in 2025Boys' name

Watchful, vigilant, through Gregory

Gregor has been given to 1,213 babies in the U.S. since 1897. In 2025 it ranked #8,477 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Gregor, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gregor: meaning, origin, and history

Watchful, vigilant, through Gregory

Ancient Greek

What Gregor means

Gregor belongs to the name family reached through Gregor → Gregory. Its meaning is “watchful, vigilant”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gregor is used in English, Czech, German and Slovak. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gregory.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Gregor is pronounced [ˈɡrɛɡor].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,213 boys were recorded with the name Gregor between 1897 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,130 in 1897.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,000 in 2020 to #8,477 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,026 in 2015 to #8,477 in 2025.

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 Gregor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,477
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gregor 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gregor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gregors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gregor was born before 1969 — so the typical Gregor is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
920
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Choose a decade

1960s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (189).

Is Gregor 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+523
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+549
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.6%
Peak was 1962 (26)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,130
1897

Spellings of Gregor

Gregor is not the most common spelling — Gregory is, with 70.8% against Gregor's 0.12%.

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 Gregor is used

Across 1910–2025, Gregor was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 767,860 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —

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

Gregor around the world

Where Gregor 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
    1996–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #316
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1999–1999
    #277
    in 1999
  • France
    1957–2020
    #5,756
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1944–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Gregor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,477
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 523
Best rank ever
#1,130
1897
Peak year
1962
26 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,213
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Gregor

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

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Sibling names for Gregor

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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