The English name Gregory derived from the Greek name Gregorios, which originated from the word ‘gregoros’ meaning ‘watchful, alert’.
Gregory is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Gregory isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Gregory ranks 346. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Gregory. In total, there are currently 702,102 people – children, adults and seniors – named Gregory living in the United States, which is approximately 0.21 % of the entire population.
The English name Gregory derived from the Greek name Gregorios, which originated from the word ‘gregoros’ meaning ‘watchful, alert’.
In the US,... Gregory was a rare name until it gained popularity in the mid-20th century due to the actor Gregory Peck.
#21 - this is the highest position Gregory has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Gregory reached this top position was in the last century, in 1963, when 21,520 newborn boys were named Gregory. But as our statistics show, Gregory has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1891, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Gregory is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn sons.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gregory was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 607 newborns were given the name Gregory, making them rank #472. Although the name Gregory was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their sons. So the chances of an encounter with a young Gregory are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Gregory is one of them. However, Gregory is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Ohio seem to particularly fancy this name – the 45,412 men called Gregory who live here are 0,593% of all male residents and push their name up to #37 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Ohio. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 702,102 people with the name Gregory. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Gregory on position 46 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Gregory has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Gregory and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gregory, you can simply say:
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Elephant
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Orange
Rocket
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gregory sounds like this:
