Greer — #1979 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Greer

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,977 babies named Greer between 1941 and 2024, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Greer currently holds the #1979 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 99 babies received it in a single year. Greer is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 704 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Greer performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 727 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Greer shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 145 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Greer in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Greer in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,977 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.