Grigor
given name · Armenian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Grigor is a given name, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Armenian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Morays. see Gregor .
- GEGeorgia1 in 3.6K◐
- USUnited States1 in 337K
- ALAlbania1 in 14K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.8K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 108 ●
- 1 in 3.6K ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
9.2K records
Official registry-verified
Georgia
Spellings & scripts●
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●
Main GB Location (1881): Morays. see Gregor .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE Georgia | #442 | 1,123 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 3.6K | 1.1K | Grigor | 20 |
| US United States | — | 987 | 5.5K rec. | 1 in 337K | 987 | Grigor | 108 |
| DE Germany | — | 224 | 247 rec. | — | — | Grigor | 45 |
| AL Albania | — | 219 | 0 rec. | 1 in 14K | 219 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 196 | 771 rec. | — | listed | Grigor | 68 |
| PL Poland | — | 136△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 281K | 136 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 122△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 122 | Grigor | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 113△ | 19 rec. | 1 in 443K | 113 | Grigor | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | 75 | 519 rec. | — | 1 | Grigor | 58 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 65 | 73 rec. | — | — | Grigor | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | 49 | 32 rec. | — | 4 | Grigor | 15 |
| RU Russia | — | 48 | 21 rec. | — | — | Grigor | 18 |
Roughly 1.1K people in Georgia bear this name (about 1 in 3.6K). 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●
- Armenian6.2K25%
- English4.6K18%
- Bulgarian3.4K13%
- Georgian2.6K10%
- Portuguese1.3K5%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian | 6,234 | 25% |
| English | 4,575 | 18% |
| Bulgarian | 3,360 | 13% |
| Georgian | 2,647 | 10% |
| Portuguese | 1,298 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Grigor 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 Russian, dim of Grigorii.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1990 | 11 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 14 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1984–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gregory of Narekb. 951TRnot in their usual nameArmenian monk
- Kirkor Balyanb. 1764TRnot in their usual nameArmenian architect
- Grigor Parlichevb. 1830MKBulgarian writer (1830-1893)
- Krikor Odianb. 1834FRnot in their usual nameOttoman Armenian jurist, politician and writer
- Krikor Zohrabb. 1861TRnot in their usual nameArmenian writer, politician and opinion journalist (1861-1915)
- Grigor Aghababyanb. 1911AMArmenian architect (1911–1977)
- Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.b. 1921USnot in their usual name1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921–1945)
- Grigor Gurzadyanb. 1922AMArmenian astronomer (1922-2014)
- Krikor Mekhitarianb. 1986BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian chess player
- Grigor Dimitrovb. 1991BGBulgarian tennis player
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 52 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 987 | #12,537 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 275 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 219 | #1,739 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 167 | #111,996 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 136 | #1,681 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 132 | #121,058 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 125 | #1,688 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 122 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 121 | #35,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 119 | #140,157 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 115 | #16,987 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 113 | #14,364 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 122 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Grigor?
- We estimate roughly 2.8 thousand people bear Grigor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Grigor have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Grigor in Georgia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled grigor.
- Where is Grigor most common?
- Grigor is densest in Georgia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Grigor compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Grigor is the 442nd most common given name of 34,237 given names recorded there.
- Is Grigor a male or female name?
- Grigor 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 Grigor mean?
- Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Morays. see Gregor .
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About this data
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, “Grigor” — the 442nd most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.