Gregg

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Greg in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 19 more 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●

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Gregg is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish given name1.4K records spelled Gregg26 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Greg, Грэг, Грег, Ğŕëğ

• Greek given name1.3K records spelled Gregg2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Γκρεγκ

58 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●

Gregg is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Reduced form of Gregory.

  as a name·Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 113 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Gregg Tolandb. 1904USAmerican cinematographer (1904–1948)
• Gregg Allmanb. 1947USAmerican musician (1947–2017)
• Gregg Popovichb. 1949USAmerican basketball coach
• Gregg Bergerb. 1950USAmerican actor (born 1950)
• Gregg Henryb. 1952USAmerican actor
• Gregg L. Semenzab. 1956USAmerican physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers
• Gregg Arakib. 1959USAmerican film director
• Gregg Hoffmanb. 1963USAmerican film producer (1963-2005)
• Gregg Turkingtonb. 1967USAmerican comedian
• Gregg Sulkinb. 1992GBBritish actor

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 278 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gregg?

We estimate roughly 246 thousand people bear Gregg (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Gregg have the most bearers?

We estimate about 244 thousand people bear Gregg in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled greg.

How common is Gregg compared with other names?

In the United States, Gregg is the 149th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Gregg a male or female name?

Gregg 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 Gregg mean?

Recorded meaning: A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Gregory and Gregor.