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Grzegorz

Boys' name

Watchful, vigilant, through Grēgorius

Grzegorz has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1989, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Grzegorz, 1997

1 in 725,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Grzegorz: meaning, origin, and history

Watchful, vigilant, through Grēgorius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Grzegorz means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Grzegorz is used in Polish.

Grzegorz comes through Old Polish Grzegorz, Latin Grēgorius and Ancient Greek Γρηγόριος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gregory and Grēgorius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Grzegorz is pronounced /ˈɡʐɛ.ɡɔʂ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 boys were recorded with the name Grzegorz between 1979 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1989; its best national rank was #5,610 in 1979.

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 Grzegorz?

Grzegorz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,624,676 births
Among boys only
1 in 377,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,488 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Grzegorz 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 1997 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 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grzegorz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Grzegorzs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Grzegorz was born before 1989 — so the typical Grzegorz is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
54.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 54.3% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Grzegorz 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 1989 (8)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,610
1979

Spellings of Grzegorz

Grzegorz is not the most common spelling — Gregory is, with 99.8% against Grzegorz'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.

Grzegorz around the world

Where Grzegorz 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
    2006–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    2007–2014
    #680
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2008–2014
    #715
    in 2014
  • France
    2018–2018
    #6,280
    in 2018
  • Norway
    1880–1998
    #492
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #468
    in 1960

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

Grzegorz 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
—
Best rank ever
#5,610
1979
Peak year
1989
8 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Grzegorz

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

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Sibling names for Grzegorz

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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