Greig
Greig was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 384 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Greig by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Greig mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Greig is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of mainly Scottish usage.”
Also “a Scottish surname transferred from the given name based on the given name Gregory.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Greig?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,612, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1957, the peak
Greig peaked in 1957, when 23 boys were given it, #1,692 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #6,612 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,409 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,594 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,860 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,256 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,732 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,429 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,120 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,205 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,188 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 14 | #2,168 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,871 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 18 | #1,926 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,441 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,429 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 20 | #1,839 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,466 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,936 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,563 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 23 | #1,692 | 10.7 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,040 | 7.6 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,811 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 17 | #1,921 | 8.3 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,447 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,890 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,863 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,063 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 15 | #1,973 | 8.5 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,155 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,949 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,197 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,495 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,712 | 4.1 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,739 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Greig a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Greig has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Greig: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Greig, and how old are they?
An estimated 267 Americans named Greig and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 60 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 448 people named Greig (2 women and girls, 446 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 299 born in the U.S. The Census count is 50% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 114,857 babies since 1880, Greig is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 26 babies recorded by SSA was a Greig (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 Greig
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 Greig and names like it
- Compare Greig and GregBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGreig peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Greig since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Greig: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Greig.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Greig alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.