Greer
Greer is given to both girls and boys: 108 girls and 29 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,851 among girls’ names and #3,788 among boys’, #2,860 among all names counting both); 3,818 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,500 Americans named Greer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 8 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Greer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Greer mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Greer is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Greer?
#1,851 among girls’ names, 2025
Greer rose from #2,155 in 2015 to #1,851 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 49.3 to 67.2 per million.
137 babies in 2025, the peak
Greer peaked in 2025, when 137 babies were given it (108 girls, #1,851 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 99 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,851 | 29 | #3,788 |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,984 | 27 | #4,014 |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,386 | 30 | #3,741 |
| 2022 | 89 | #2,147 | 20 | #4,902 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,997 | 20 | #4,823 |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,110 | 27 | #3,852 |
| 2019 | 83 | #2,225 | 20 | #4,850 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,152 | 27 | #3,920 |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,149 | 16 | #5,614 |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,021 | 18 | #5,193 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #2,155 | 25 | #4,113 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,695 | 17 | #5,326 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,851 | 18 | #5,037 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,230 | 14 | #6,093 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,187 | 11 | #7,154 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,137 | 22 | #4,410 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,212 | 7 | #10,213 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,394 | 14 | #6,182 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,224 | 10 | #7,784 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,875 | 7 | #9,925 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,662 | 6 | #10,556 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,140 | 8 | #8,396 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,247 | 8 | #8,102 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,838 | 5 | #11,290 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,733 | 8 | #7,791 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,085 | 5 | #10,982 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,540 | 11 | #5,777 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,132 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,398 | 9 | #6,266 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,233 | 10 | #5,683 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,633 | 13 | #4,612 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,247 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,172 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,049 | 7 | #6,933 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,241 | 8 | #6,142 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,648 | 6 | #7,488 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,921 | 6 | #7,311 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,933 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,198 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,301 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,649 | 5 | #6,914 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,801 | 5 | #6,684 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,854 | 6 | #5,731 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,400 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,774 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,804 | 7 | #5,136 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,691 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,302 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,286 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,433 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,192 | 7 | #4,499 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,301 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,269 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,442 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,007 | 8 | #3,766 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,878 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,131 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,222 | 7 | #3,483 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,000 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,422 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,968 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,371 | 12 | #2,464 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,725 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,956 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,697 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,263 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,793 | 5 | #4,218 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,610 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,028 | 5 | #4,207 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,229 | 6 | #3,689 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,139 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,730 | 6 | #3,592 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,548 | 5 | #4,024 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,529 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,354 | 6 | #3,505 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,707 | 7 | #3,153 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,662 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,534 | 7 | #3,122 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,873 | 11 | #2,423 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,931 | 7 | #3,006 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,672 | 6 | #3,130 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,549 | 9 | #2,527 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,346 | 10 | #2,461 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,342 | 6 | #3,351 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,661 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,311 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,889 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #3,983 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 7 | #3,598 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #4,064 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 14 | #2,268 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,363 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 6 | #4,055 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,413 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 8 | #3,218 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 8 | #3,043 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 8 | #3,026 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,687 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Greer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,818 Americans recorded as Greer, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Greer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Greer, and how old are they?
3,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,818 Americans ever recorded as Greer. The median Greer alive today is 19 years old; half are between 8 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 3,050 people named Greer (2,513 women and girls, 537 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,893 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 65 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 318 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 287 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 537 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 883 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,410 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Greer born?
The states with the most babies named Greer are Texas, Georgia and Ohio, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,566 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,261 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,191 | 0.2× |
| California | 6 | #2,896 | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #704 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,335 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,299 | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,198 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Greer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,574 babies since 1880, Greer is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 137 of their 163 babies (84%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Greer
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Greer and names like it
- Compare Greer and GrierBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGreer peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Greer since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Greer: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Greer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Greer alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.