Meaning not yet researched.
Gregg: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #167 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #167 in 1962; #12,682 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gregg in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,682 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #167.
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Gregg: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #167 in 1962 · most boys in one year: 1,900 (1962).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Gregg, making it the 12,682nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,113 places from #8,569 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 9 boys named Gregg in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #167, reached in 1962. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,900. For comparison, it was #5,824 in 2015 and #261 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gregg in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 36,624 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 13,851 babies named Gregg.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 81 US boys were named Gregg; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Greg (77,849 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Gregg in the open dataset we use.
Gregg is listed as a nickname for Greggory.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #12,682 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,569 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #12,869 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,289 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #11,080 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,173 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,480 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,143 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,474 |
| 2015 | — | — | 15 | #5,824 |
| 2014 | — | — | 14 | #6,102 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2012 | — | — | 20 | #4,757 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,765 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,154 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,080 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,790 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,279 |
| 2006 | — | — | 31 | #3,410 |
| 2005 | — | — | 29 | #3,409 |
| 2004 | — | — | 29 | #3,313 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,806 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,442 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,350 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,349 |
| 1999 | — | — | 43 | #2,181 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,171 |
| 1997 | — | — | 49 | #1,899 |
| 1996 | — | — | 57 | #1,679 |
| 1995 | — | — | 67 | #1,461 |
| 1994 | — | — | 71 | #1,390 |
| 1993 | — | — | 72 | #1,350 |
| 1992 | — | — | 104 | #1,079 |
| 1991 | — | — | 105 | #1,057 |
| 1990 | — | — | 124 | #927 |
| 1989 | — | — | 132 | #876 |
| 1988 | — | — | 148 | #774 |
| 1987 | — | — | 146 | #758 |
| 1986 | — | — | 153 | #731 |
| 1985 | — | — | 168 | #685 |
| 1984 | — | — | 160 | #686 |
| 1983 | — | — | 188 | #623 |
| 1982 | — | — | 211 | #591 |
| 1981 | — | — | 290 | #492 |
| 1980 | — | — | 301 | #487 |
| 1979 | — | — | 314 | #463 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,289 | 364 | #406 |
| 1977 | — | — | 469 | #364 |
| 1976 | — | — | 484 | #347 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,717 | 493 | #348 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,222 | 479 | #352 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,901 | 532 | #325 |
| 1972 | — | — | 629 | #292 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,760 | 772 | #275 |
| 1970 | — | — | 941 | #248 |
| 1969 | — | — | 883 | #245 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,299 | 943 | #234 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,132 | 957 | #229 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,451 | 1,134 | #206 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,474 | 1,232 | #202 |
| 1964 | — | — | 1,505 | #186 |
| 1963 | — | — | 1,750 | #168 |
| 1962 | — | — | 1,900 | #167 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,670 | 1,752 | #176 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,566 | 1,736 | #179 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,598 | 1,585 | #187 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,071 | 1,477 | #189 |
| 1957 | — | — | 1,545 | #188 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,523 | 1,438 | #195 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,299 | #198 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,063 | 949 | #227 |
| 1953 | — | — | 816 | #236 |
| 1952 | — | — | 733 | #253 |
| 1951 | — | — | 636 | #267 |
| 1950 | — | — | 626 | #261 |
| 1949 | — | — | 558 | #286 |
| 1948 | — | — | 523 | #302 |
| 1947 | — | — | 518 | #302 |
| 1946 | — | — | 319 | #365 |
| 1945 | — | — | 173 | #452 |
| 1944 | — | — | 153 | #493 |
| 1943 | — | — | 116 | #590 |
| 1942 | — | — | 86 | #696 |
| 1941 | — | — | 77 | #703 |
| 1940 | — | — | 58 | #824 |
| 1939 | — | — | 36 | #1,075 |
| 1938 | — | — | 41 | #995 |
| 1937 | — | — | 38 | #1,039 |
| 1936 | — | — | 27 | #1,277 |
| 1935 | — | — | 22 | #1,465 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,172 |
| 1933 | — | — | 15 | #1,865 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,382 |
| 1931 | — | — | 13 | #2,147 |
| 1930 | — | — | 16 | #1,921 |
| 1928 | — | — | 12 | #2,444 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,906 |
| 1926 | — | — | 11 | #2,632 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,495 |
| 1924 | — | — | 13 | #2,397 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,680 |
| 1922 | — | — | 19 | #1,847 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,298 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,784 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,969 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,314 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,342 |
| 1916 | — | — | 15 | #1,990 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,574 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,058 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,357 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,129 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #926 |
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).