Kreg
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kreg has been given to 914 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1962, with 38 recorded.
Babies named Kreg, 2005
1 in 769,000
Kreg over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kreg?
Kreg had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kreg sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kreg. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kregs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kreg was born before 1970 — so the typical Kreg is around 55 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 33.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 903
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (303).
Is Kreg 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1962 (38)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.9% average annual change
Spellings of Kreg
Kreg is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 38.6% against Kreg's 0.10%.
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 Kreg is used
Across 1910–2025, Kreg was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 970,879 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Iowa1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Kreg has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kreg by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kreg
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kreg
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.