Greg
Greg is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. Its best rank was 77th, in 1961–1962.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19615,398 births
- Best rank
- #77first in 1961
- Since 1915
- 77,692people given the name
The story in the numbers
77,692 boys have been named Greg in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 5,398 births — 0.25% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 23 births in 2024, against 5,398 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 47%. It has spent 58 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 6 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Greg | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | |
| 1920s | 53 | |
| 1930s | 242 | |
| 1940s | 5,101 | |
| 1950s | 18,230 | |
| 1960s | 36,441 | |
| 1970s | 11,437 | |
| 1980s | 3,599 | |
| 1990s | 1,369 | |
| 2000s | 736 | |
| 2010s | 353 | |
| 2020s | 124 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Greg was the 77th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Greg
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Timmypeak 1960
- Todpeak 1962
- Dougpeak 1962
- Martypeak 1962
- Greggpeak 1962
- Timpeak 1960
- Chuckpeak 1961
- Russpeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.