Meaning not yet researched.
Gregory: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 493 in 2025. Its best rank was #21 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #21 in 1963; #593 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gregory in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#593 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #21.
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Gregory: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 493 boys in 2025. Peak: #21 in 1963 · most boys in one year: 21,976 (1962).
In 2025, 493 US boys were named Gregory, making it the 593rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 54 places from #539 in 2024. That is 61 fewer than the 554 boys named Gregory in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #21, reached in 1963. The most boys given the name in a single year was 21,976, in 1962. For comparison, it was #346 in 2015 and #25 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gregory in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 714,753 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 188,298 babies named Gregory.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,923 US boys were named Gregory; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 926. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,465 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gregory ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #304 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Greg (77,849 babies since 1880), Gregorio (10,847 babies since 1880), Greggory (5,107 babies since 1880) and Gregoria (2,263 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gregor, Gregary and Gregery are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Gory and Greg.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Gregor (1,213), Gregary (504), Gregery (493), Greig (384), Grigor (204), Gregorey (92), Gregori (83), Greogory (79), Gregorie (43), Grzegorz (35), Gregeory (26), Grigoriy (25), and more.
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 10 | #304 | #332 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #315 | #318 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #368 | #407 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #380 | #199 |
| Michigan | 22 | #398 | #258 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #435 | #228 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #436 | #276 |
| Alabama | 11 | #462 | #301 |
| Indiana | 15 | #463 | #326 |
| Kansas | 7 | #487 | #433 |
| Georgia | 22 | #488 | #266 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #488 | #193 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #532 | #309 |
| Illinois | 17 | #552 | #405 |
| Virginia | 13 | #568 | #218 |
| Arizona | 12 | #572 | #504 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #577 | #295 |
| Washington | 12 | #585 | #478 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #616 | #253 |
| California | 47 | #619 | #352 |
| New York | 24 | #626 | #331 |
| Ohio | 15 | #634 | #367 |
| Maryland | 7 | #652 | #218 |
| Florida | 25 | #655 | #310 |
| Texas | 42 | #686 | #420 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #693 | #385 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #723 | #493 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #735 | #662 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #740 | #514 |
| Utah | 5 | #741 | #638 |
| Missouri | 5 | #910 | #299 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 493 | #593 |
| 2024 | — | — | 554 | #539 |
| 2023 | — | — | 557 | #530 |
| 2022 | — | — | 616 | #495 |
| 2021 | — | — | 608 | #486 |
| 2020 | — | — | 686 | #435 |
| 2019 | — | — | 806 | #388 |
| 2018 | — | — | 787 | #408 |
| 2017 | — | — | 890 | #374 |
| 2016 | — | — | 926 | #360 |
| 2015 | — | — | 987 | #346 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,110 | #315 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,182 | #296 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,798 | 1,231 | #286 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,265 | #279 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,287 | #268 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,426 | #247 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,559 | #236 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,602 | 1,679 | #223 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,833 | #208 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,903 | #202 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,005 | 1,968 | #194 |
| 2003 | — | — | 2,110 | #185 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,343 | 2,279 | #169 |
| 2001 | — | — | 2,478 | #157 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,898 | 2,839 | #138 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,798 | 3,048 | #122 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,554 | 3,429 | #109 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,964 | 3,802 | #103 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,280 | 3,994 | #98 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,203 | 4,442 | #84 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,881 | 5,137 | #76 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,501 | 5,807 | #65 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,566 | 6,498 | #60 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,248 | 7,555 | #55 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,284 | 8,378 | #51 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,831 | 8,760 | #52 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,874 | 8,629 | #50 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,950 | 9,135 | #47 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,659 | 9,529 | #46 |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,655 | 9,767 | #45 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,621 | 9,688 | #44 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,702 | 9,980 | #42 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,034 | 10,144 | #40 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,649 | 8,756 | #46 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,815 | 9,267 | #42 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,927 | 9,109 | #42 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,734 | 9,340 | #38 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,723 | 10,052 | #35 |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,576 | 10,060 | #35 |
| 1975 | 78 | #1,369 | 10,400 | #33 |
| 1974 | 63 | #1,534 | 10,826 | #31 |
| 1973 | 85 | #1,232 | 11,674 | #26 |
| 1972 | 64 | #1,490 | 13,056 | #26 |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,339 | 14,760 | #26 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,533 | 16,286 | #26 |
| 1969 | 75 | #1,307 | 16,166 | #26 |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,351 | 15,392 | #26 |
| 1967 | 89 | #1,111 | 15,775 | #25 |
| 1966 | 75 | #1,245 | 17,009 | #23 |
| 1965 | 78 | #1,221 | 18,205 | #23 |
| 1964 | 75 | #1,287 | 19,884 | #22 |
| 1963 | 89 | #1,159 | 21,420 | #21 |
| 1962 | 87 | #1,180 | 21,976 | #21 |
| 1961 | 89 | #1,170 | 21,364 | #23 |
| 1960 | 78 | #1,240 | 20,304 | #24 |
| 1959 | 61 | #1,373 | 19,889 | #23 |
| 1958 | 73 | #1,243 | 19,810 | #23 |
| 1957 | 59 | #1,381 | 21,472 | #23 |
| 1956 | 62 | #1,322 | 21,082 | #24 |
| 1955 | 62 | #1,280 | 19,815 | #24 |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,472 | 17,625 | #25 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,688 | 16,160 | #24 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,656 | 15,191 | #24 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,677 | 14,102 | #25 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,847 | 13,311 | #25 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,234 | 10,979 | #31 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,151 | 9,724 | #32 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,229 | 9,327 | #33 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,656 | 5,672 | #56 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,805 | 2,474 | #96 |
| 1944 | — | — | 1,305 | #152 |
| 1943 | — | — | 1,134 | #163 |
| 1942 | — | — | 1,027 | #165 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,721 | 824 | #183 |
| 1940 | — | — | 756 | #189 |
| 1939 | — | — | 596 | #205 |
| 1938 | — | — | 536 | #225 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,504 | 507 | #234 |
| 1936 | — | — | 393 | #273 |
| 1935 | — | — | 368 | #282 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,560 | 329 | #299 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,924 | 254 | #333 |
| 1932 | — | — | 283 | #327 |
| 1931 | — | — | 255 | #342 |
| 1930 | — | — | 248 | #363 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,874 | 237 | #375 |
| 1928 | — | — | 260 | #357 |
| 1927 | — | — | 241 | #381 |
| 1926 | — | — | 243 | #375 |
| 1925 | — | — | 212 | #409 |
| 1924 | — | — | 226 | #408 |
| 1923 | — | — | 191 | #440 |
| 1922 | — | — | 220 | #407 |
| 1921 | — | — | 184 | #453 |
| 1920 | — | — | 179 | #454 |
| 1919 | — | — | 163 | #466 |
| 1918 | — | — | 175 | #448 |
| 1917 | — | — | 158 | #451 |
| 1916 | — | — | 144 | #477 |
| 1915 | — | — | 135 | #477 |
| 1914 | — | — | 107 | #468 |
| 1913 | — | — | 85 | #465 |
| 1912 | — | — | 65 | #492 |
| 1911 | — | — | 36 | #491 |
| 1910 | — | — | 25 | #573 |
| 1909 | — | — | 26 | #511 |
| 1908 | — | — | 26 | #493 |
| 1907 | — | — | 21 | #523 |
| 1906 | — | — | 16 | #601 |
| 1905 | — | — | 13 | #682 |
| 1904 | — | — | 16 | #575 |
| 1903 | — | — | 10 | #751 |
| 1902 | — | — | 10 | #768 |
| 1901 | — | — | 16 | #496 |
| 1900 | — | — | 12 | #759 |
| 1899 | — | — | 11 | #635 |
| 1898 | — | — | 14 | #588 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #818 |
| 1896 | — | — | 10 | #748 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #760 |
| 1894 | — | — | 10 | #694 |
| 1893 | — | — | 9 | #726 |
| 1892 | — | — | 9 | #766 |
| 1890 | — | — | 12 | #579 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #922 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,097 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #795 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #999 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,039 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #816 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #967 |
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).