Greg

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Greg is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In New Zealand it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Short form of Grégoire, from Greek Gregorios, 'watchful'.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 709◐
  • CACanada1 in 743
  • AUAustralia1 in 838

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈246K ●

across 8 countries

#685 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
564 ●

4.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.4K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

GregLatin · English●2.6M records
เกริกThai · Thai●1.6K records
גרגHebrew · Hebrew●364 records
ԳրեգArmenian · Armenian●2 records
커크Hangul · Korean●1 records
গরেগBengali · Bangla●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gregg in ES Spain, ZA South Africa, PL Poland and Craig in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Short form of Grégoire, from Greek Gregorios, 'watchful'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Greg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#149244,2283.6M rec.1 in 1.4K244KGreg564
GB United Kingdom#226152,635189K rec.—6Greg231
AU Australia#158138,314151K rec.—81Greg287
CA Canada#106112,008121K rec.—3Greg254
PH Philippines#78626,68925K rec.——Greg96
IT Italy#43215,53921K rec.—3Greg66
NZ New Zealand#5212,07511K rec.—12Greg135
RU Russia—10,38212K rec.——Greg80
IE Ireland#1667,4398.8K rec.—11Greg102
DE Germany—7,3987.3K rec.—1Greg134
SG Singapore#1076,0898.4K rec.——Greg70
TH Thailand—5,7844.9K rec.—#847,427Craig93

Roughly 244K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.6M84%
  • 89K3%
  • Spanish87K3%
  • French56K2%
  • German26K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,560,97884%
88,9103%
Spanish87,3633%
French55,6842%
German26,1031%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Greg is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name129K records spelled Greg6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Grég, Grèg

  • a separate given name94K records spelled Greg2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Grēg

  • French given name60K records spelled Greg6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Grég, Grèg, Greg', Grég', Grëg

  • Polish given name15K records spelled Greg26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Gregg, Грэг, Грег, Ğŕëğ

  • Hungarian given name4.1K records spelled Greg5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, United Kingdom, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Grég, Gřeg

71 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Greg is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, short form of Gregory; first attested William Gregge 1234 Fees (Do)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, An English and Scottish male given name, diminutive of Gregory or Gregor (and sometimes derived from the surname Greig)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Diminutif de Grégoire; du grec Gregorios, « vigilant ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • English and Scottish: short form of GREGORY or GREGOR . Variants: Gregg, Greig (chiefly Scottish, and generally a transferred use of the surname so spelled, which is itself a derivative of the given name) .

    as a word

  • In ang, alternative form of grǣġ

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1920194019601980200020205.4K · 1961

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Greg in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1915–2025
Yearrecords
19157
19206
19215
19227
19246
192511
19279
19289
193010
19319
19329
19338
193417
193519
193632
193734
193849
193955
194057
194176
1942101
1943145
1944188
1945355
1946806
19471,316
19481,189
1949868
1950804
1951739
1952769
1953798
1954953
19551,166
19561,603
19572,972
19583,790
19594,635
19605,084
19615,397
19625,365
19634,854
19643,972
19653,181
19662,454
19672,100
19682,047
19691,984
19702,007
19711,695
19721,438
19731,300
19741,097
1975952
1976857
1977824
1978694
1979571
1980558
1981474
1982438
1983414
1984388
1985332
1986270
1987286
1988205
1989233
1990204
1991177
1992173
1993148
1994134
1995129
1996112
199799
1998108
199985
200079
200182
200270
200373
200486
200591
200672
200760
200868
200955
201041
201145
201239
201349
201427
201534
201638
201726
201826
201928
202024
202135
202222
202320
202423
202521

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 104 years between 1915–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19501960197019801990Gregory Alan Williams, b. 1956Greg Abbott, b. 1957Greg Germann, b. 1958Greg Louganis, b. 1960Greg Kinnear, b. 1963Greg Mottola, b. 1964Greg Wise, b. 1966Greg Berlanti, b. 1972Greg Poehler, b. 1974Greg Rutherford, b. 1986

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 80 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Greg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020131K#431
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2011745#2,460
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000581#36,381
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010510#42,511
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020475#48,050
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022245—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—243#21,979
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—214#24,233
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020149#431
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—143#2,264
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—96#7,923
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—67#11,188

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 464 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Greg?
We estimate roughly 246 thousand people bear Greg (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Greg have the most bearers?
We estimate about 244 thousand people bear Greg in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled greg.
How common is Greg compared with other names?
In the United States, Greg is the 149th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Greg a male or female name?
Greg is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Greg mean?
Recorded meaning: Short form of Grégoire, from Greek Gregorios, 'watchful'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Greg” — the 149th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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