Gregrey
Gregrey was last recorded in 1998, when 6 babies were given it; 224 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gregrey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gregrey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,864, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1961, the peak
Gregrey peaked in 1961, when 17 boys were given it, #2,027 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | #8,864 | 3.1 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,685 | 2.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,752 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,637 | 2.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,859 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,238 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,226 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,875 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,993 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,936 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 8 | #3,204 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,368 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,349 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,953 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,778 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,592 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,145 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,027 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,178 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,148 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,136 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,209 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,691 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,074 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,272 | 3.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,507 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,181 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gregrey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gregrey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gregrey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gregrey, and how old are they?
An estimated 180 Americans named Gregrey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 55 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 182 people named Gregrey (0 women and girls, 182 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 192 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 716,526 babies since 1880, Gregrey is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 493 babies recorded by SSA was a Gregrey (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 Gregrey
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 Gregrey and names like it
- Compare Gregrey and GregoryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sGregrey peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gregrey since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Gregrey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gregrey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.