Boy · Greek, through English
Greg
Say it: GREG
Meaning
A short form of Gregory, from Greek Gregorios 'watchful', from gregorein 'to be awake'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Registered as a full name in the US mainly in the 1950s and 1960s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1960s
In the United States
- 77,770 babies given this name since 1915
- At its height in 1962, about 1 in 386 boys
- 24 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Gregg
Famous bearers
- Greg Louganis, American diver
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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