girls:
112 births since 1954
#5604 (2nd percentile)
boys:
36.5k births since 1881
#588 (87th percentile)
overall:
36.6k births since 1881
#1302 (83rd percentile)
The name Gregg is the #1,302 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 36,608 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 83.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #588 (87.2% percentile) for all time with 36,496 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,604 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 112 births since 1954.
Gregg first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1954 for girls). Birth data for Gregg is available in 111 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (111 years for boys and 15 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gregg has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gregg reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 74.9% percentile (ranked #166) with 905 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 905 births per million (ranked 74.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1965, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gregg ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gregg reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #763) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gregg".
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