boys:
1.2k births since 1897
#3403 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1897
#6536 (16th percentile)
The name Gregor is the #6,536 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,204 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 15.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,403 (25.8% percentile) for all time with 1,204 births since 1897.
Gregor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (first recorded for boys in 1897). Birth data for Gregor is available in 106 out of the 127 years between 1897 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Gregor reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #626) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 41 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Despite a low point around 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Gregor ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gregor".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gregor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 97.6% confident that Gregor is pronounced as GREH-ger, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GREE-ger, at 2.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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