girls:
2.9k births since 1929
#3240 (43rd percentile)
boys:
710.8k births since 1880
#48 (99th percentile)
overall:
713.7k births since 1880
#82 (99th percentile)
The name Gregory is the #82 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 713,688 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #48 (99.0% percentile) for all time with 710,827 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,240 (43.3% percentile) for all time with 2,861 births since 1929.
Gregory has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1929 for girls). Birth data for Gregory is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (140 years for boys and 65 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 Gregory has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gregory reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 97.0% percentile (ranked #21) with 10,451 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 10,451 births per million (ranked 97.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1986, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gregory ranks #466 for boys (48.9% percentile) with 303 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gregory reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #655) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 55 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gregory".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gregory. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.5% confident that Gregory is pronounced as GREH-ger-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GREH-gree, at 9.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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