Greg
Greg was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,760 among boys’ names; 77,849 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 60,400 Americans named Greg and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 56 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Greg by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Greg mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Greg is “a diminutive of the male given names Gregory and Gregor, from English or Scottish (sometimes derived from the surname Greig).”
/ɡɹɛɡ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Greg?
#4,760 among boys’ names, 2025
Greg fell from #3,314 in 2015 to #4,760 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 12.3 per million.
5,409 babies in 1961, the peak
Greg peaked in 1961, when 5,409 babies were given it (5,397 boys, #77 among boys’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,760 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,473 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,939 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,604 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,321 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,186 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,832 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,028 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,023 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,082 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,314 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,826 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,498 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,975 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,679 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,888 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,362 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,044 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,221 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 72 | #1,880 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 91 | #1,544 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 86 | #1,540 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 73 | #1,688 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 70 | #1,683 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 82 | #1,483 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 79 | #1,520 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,386 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,163 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 99 | #1,197 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,080 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 129 | #975 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 134 | #951 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 148 | #876 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 173 | #794 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 177 | #767 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 204 | #708 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 233 | #652 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 205 | #658 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 286 | #537 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 270 | #543 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 332 | #474 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 388 | #420 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 414 | #400 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 438 | #385 | 0.24 |
| 1981 | 474 | #368 | 0.26 |
| 1980 | 558 | #336 | 0.31 |
| 1979 | 571 | #326 | 0.33 |
| 1978 | 694 | #279 | 0.42 |
| 1977 | 824 | #249 | 0.50 |
| 1976 | 857 | #237 | 0.55 |
| 1975 | 952 | #218 | 0.61 |
| 1974 | 1,097 | #200 | 0.70 |
| 1973 | 1,300 | #181 | 0.83 |
| 1972 | 1,438 | #173 | 0.89 |
| 1971 | 1,695 | #163 | 1.0 |
| 1970 | 2,007 | #154 | 1.1 |
| 1969 | 1,984 | #152 | 1.1 |
| 1968 | 2,047 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 1967 | 2,100 | #140 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 2,454 | #126 | 1.4 |
| 1965 | 3,181 | #105 | 1.7 |
| 1964 | 3,972 | #95 | 2.0 |
| 1963 | 4,854 | #81 | 2.4 |
| 1962 | 5,365 | #77 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 5,397 | #77 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5,084 | #83 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 4,635 | #91 | 2.2 |
| 1958 | 3,790 | #105 | 1.8 |
| 1957 | 2,972 | #127 | 1.4 |
| 1956 | 1,603 | #182 | 0.76 |
| 1955 | 1,166 | #210 | 0.57 |
| 1954 | 953 | #226 | 0.47 |
| 1953 | 798 | #238 | 0.40 |
| 1952 | 769 | #243 | 0.40 |
| 1951 | 739 | #247 | 0.39 |
| 1950 | 804 | #228 | 0.45 |
| 1949 | 868 | #214 | 0.49 |
| 1948 | 1,189 | #178 | 0.68 |
| 1947 | 1,316 | #171 | 0.72 |
| 1946 | 806 | #212 | 0.50 |
| 1945 | 355 | #314 | 0.26 |
| 1944 | 188 | #445 | 0.14 |
| 1943 | 145 | #520 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 101 | #632 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 76 | #710 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 57 | #831 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 55 | #821 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 49 | #902 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,133 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,173 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,619 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,832 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,721 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,736 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,665 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,921 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,653 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,065 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,662 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,603 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,007 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,206 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Greg a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Greg has been given almost only to boys: 143 girls in 104 years of records.
Girls and boys named Greg: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Greg, and how old are they?
60,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 77,849 Americans ever recorded as Greg. The median Greg alive today is 63 years old; half are between 56 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 131,523 people named Greg (149 women and girls, 131,374 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 65,017 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Greg rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 405 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33,900 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 370 |
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 Greg born?
The states with the most babies named Greg are California, Ohio and Texas, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10,246 | #2,591 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 4,809 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 4,224 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 4,010 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 3,848 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 3,252 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 3,006 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,830 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 2,658 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Wisconsin | 2,444 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Greg is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Greg is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1915 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Greg 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 114,857 babies since 1880, Greg is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 26 babies (81%), 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 Greg
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 Greg and names like it
- Compare Greg and GreggBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sGreg peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Greg since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Greg: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Greg.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Greg alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.