Gregary
Gregary was last recorded in 2002, when 6 babies were given it; 504 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gregary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gregary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,795, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1965, the peak
Gregary peaked in 1965, when 24 boys were given it, #1,609 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | #9,795 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,077 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,341 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,115 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,682 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,126 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,048 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,703 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,267 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,228 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 | #3,950 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,787 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,567 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,089 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,826 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,965 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,392 | 10.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,089 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,581 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,402 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,784 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,171 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,061 | 9.2 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,070 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,270 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 24 | #1,609 | 12.9 |
| 1964 | 15 | #2,150 | 7.5 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,857 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,918 | 8.7 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,838 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,254 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,718 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,793 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,309 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,416 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,656 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,040 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,859 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,204 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,932 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,652 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,475 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,123 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,502 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,716 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gregary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gregary has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gregary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gregary, and how old are they?
An estimated 406 Americans named Gregary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 50 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 320 people named Gregary (0 women and girls, 320 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 721,633 babies since 1880, Gregary is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 493 babies recorded by SSA was a Gregary (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gregary
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 Gregary and names like it
- Compare Gregary and GregoryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sGregary peaked in 1965.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Gregary.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Gregary alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with GMost given first.