Gregory
Gregory is ranked 539th among boys in 2024 (553 births). Its best rank was 21st, in 1962–1963.
- Rank in 2024
- #539down 10 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5530.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 196221,971 births
- Best rank
- #21first in 1962
- Since 1880
- 714,266people given the name
The story in the numbers
711,405 boys have been named Gregory in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 21,971 births — 1.1% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 553 births in 2024, against 21,971 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1960s alone account for 26%. It has spent 139 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 52 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,861 girls have also been given it, 0.40% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gregory | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 39 | |
| 1890s | 92 | |
| 1900s | 166 | |
| 1910s | 1,093 | |
| 1920s | 2,193 | |
| 1930s | 3,769 | |
| 1940s | 43,222 | |
| 1950s | 178,453 | |
| 1960s | 187,490 | |
| 1970s | 115,573 | |
| 1980s | 93,668 | |
| 1990s | 52,087 | |
| 2000s | 20,073 | |
| 2010s | 10,469 | |
| 2020s | 3,018 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Gregory was the 21st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Gregory
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Stevenpeak 1956
- Craigpeak 1960
- Jeffriepeak 1961
- Michealpeak 1957
- Jeffrypeak 1956
- Darylpeak 1956
- Kerrypeak 1960
- Kirkpeak 1962
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.