Meaning not yet researched.
Greer: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,347 in 1943.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,347 in 1943; #1,851 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Greer in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,851 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1943, at #1,347.
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Greer: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,347 in 1943 · most girls in one year: 108 (2025).
In 2025, 108 US girls were named Greer, making it the 1,851st most common girls’ name of the year, up 133 places from #1,984 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 99 girls named Greer in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,347, reached in 1943. The most girls given the name in a single year was 108, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,155 in 2015 and #2,708 in 1950.
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Greer, making it the 3,789th most common boys’ name of the year, up 228 places from #4,017 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 27 boys named Greer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,269, reached in 1923. The most boys given the name in a single year was 30, in 2023. For comparison, it was #4,115 in 2015 and #3,154 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Greer in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 3,818 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 915 babies named Greer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 914 US girls were named Greer; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,882 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Greer ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #704 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Grier and Greyer are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Grier (756), Greyer (61).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Greer in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 6 | #704 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,192 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,198 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,261 | #1,220 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,299 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,335 | #1,460 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,566 | #1,333 |
| California | 6 | #2,896 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,851 | 29 | #3,789 |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,984 | 27 | #4,017 |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,386 | 30 | #3,744 |
| 2022 | 89 | #2,147 | 20 | #4,906 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,997 | 20 | #4,827 |
| 2020 | 87 | #2,110 | 27 | #3,855 |
| 2019 | 83 | #2,225 | 20 | #4,854 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,152 | 27 | #3,924 |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,149 | 16 | #5,618 |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,021 | 18 | #5,197 |
| 2015 | 88 | #2,155 | 25 | #4,115 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,697 | 17 | #5,330 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,852 | 18 | #5,041 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,231 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,188 | 11 | #7,161 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,138 | 22 | #4,411 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,213 | 7 | #10,218 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,395 | 14 | #6,187 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,224 | 10 | #7,788 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,876 | 7 | #9,931 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,666 | 6 | #10,563 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,144 | 8 | #8,402 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,251 | 8 | #8,109 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,842 | 5 | #11,297 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,737 | 8 | #7,798 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,089 | 5 | #10,990 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,543 | 11 | #5,783 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,401 | 9 | #6,272 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,236 | 10 | #5,690 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,638 | 13 | #4,618 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,252 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,177 | — | — |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,054 | 7 | #6,940 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,247 | 8 | #6,149 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,653 | 6 | #7,496 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,927 | 6 | #7,318 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,201 | — | — |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,650 | 5 | #6,920 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,802 | 5 | #6,688 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,855 | 6 | #5,735 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,401 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,775 | — | — |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,805 | 7 | #5,138 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,692 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,303 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,287 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,435 | — | — |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,192 | 7 | #4,501 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,302 | — | — |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,442 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,009 | 8 | #3,768 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,132 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,223 | 7 | #3,484 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,372 | 12 | #2,465 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,264 | — | — |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,794 | 5 | #4,219 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,611 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,029 | 5 | #4,208 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,230 | 6 | #3,690 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,140 | — | — |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,731 | 6 | #3,593 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,549 | 5 | #4,027 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,355 | 6 | #3,506 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,708 | 7 | #3,154 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,535 | 7 | #3,123 |
| 1947 | 27 | #1,874 | 11 | #2,424 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,932 | 7 | #3,007 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,673 | 6 | #3,131 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,550 | 9 | #2,528 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,347 | 10 | #2,462 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,343 | 6 | #3,352 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,663 | — | — |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,312 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,891 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,986 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,599 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,066 |
| 1923 | — | — | 14 | #2,269 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,365 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,057 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,415 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,219 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,044 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,027 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,688 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).