Gregor
Gregor reached its high-water mark in 1962 at number 1,546, and has been recorded 1,213 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 870 Gregors are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Gregor
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,213
- Estimated living today
- 870
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 1,546th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1897
How old the living Gregors are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,213 babies given the name since 1897, about 870 are alive — 72 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Gregors
- Gregor Mendel (1822–1884)Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar
- Gregor Strasser (1892–1934)German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Party
- Gregor Kobel (born 1997)Swiss footballer
- Gregor Gysi (born 1948)German lawyer and left-wing politician
- Gregor Schlierenzauer (born 1990)Austrian ski jumper
- Gregor Piatigorsky (1903–1976)Ukraine-born American cellist
- Gregor Fučka (born 1971)Slovenian-Italian basketball player
- Gregor Foitek (born 1965)Swiss racing driver
People named Gregor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gregor is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gregor is most concentrated in California (7.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular boys’ names the year Gregor peaked:
Gregor elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Gregor | 3,109 | 60th |
| Austria boys | Gregor | 2,219 | 55th |
| England and Wales boys | Gregor | 505 | 447th |
| France boys | Gregor +1 spelling | 415 | 626th |
| Switzerland boys | Gregor | 181 | 408th |
| Belgium boys | Gregor | 5 | 1,088th |
| Poland boys | Gregor | 5 birth registrations | 595th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Gregor | 3 | 277th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Gregor: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Gregor | 164 | 0.013% | 305th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Gregor | 15 | 0.003% | 466th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Gregor | 2 | 0.003% | 184th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Gregor is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 52 of them.
Gregor by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 37 | 242nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Gregor among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Gregor | 16 | 33 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Gregor against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.