Greggory
Masculine · “watchful”
Gregory means watchful, and it is a monk's name in the most literal sense. Greek gregorein is to be awake or on guard, and the early monastic communities were expected to keep vigil — so a name meaning wakeful was a statement about a way of life. Sixteen popes have carried it, more than any name but John.
How old is the name Greggory?
Greggory first appears in US birth records in 1940 — 85 years ago. The typical Greggory alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 4,500 people named Greggory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Greggory most popular?
Greggory peaked in 1963, reaching #605 nationally. See the whole 1963 chart.
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Where it comes from
From gregoros to Greggory
The story of Greggory
Gregory the Great reorganized the papacy, sent the mission that converted England, and has a form of plainchant named after him; Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus are among the most important theologians of the Greek church. That is an unusual amount of weight on one name, and it is why sixteen popes chose it. The calendar most of the world uses is called Gregorian after the pope who reformed it. The doubled g belongs entirely to American spelling and does nothing at all to the sound.
Meaning
watchful; awake
Greek gregoros means wakeful or vigilant, from a verb about rousing and staying awake, and Gregorios is the name built on it. The derivation is not disputed. Early Christian writers connected it directly to the instruction to watch and pray, and it became a favored name among monks and then among bishops. The doubled g in this spelling is English and carries nothing.
How the name formed
- gregoros
- Gregorios
- Gregory
- Greggory
Related forms: Gregorio · Gregorio · Grigory · Grzegorz
Pronouncing Greggory
GREG-uh-ree
GREG-uh-ree, three syllables, stress at the front, the middle reduced. The doubled g changes nothing — English doubles a consonant after a short stressed vowel as a convention, and the vowel here was already short.
Nicknames for Greggory
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1940
- Most boys named
- 1990140 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #605reached in 1963
- Change vs 2022
- +20.0%6 in 2024, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Greggory in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gregorio in Italian — same name
- Gregorio in Spanish — same name
- Grigory in Russian — same name
- Grzegorz in Polish — same name
Greggorys among us
people named Greggory are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Greggory sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The Greek meaning is concrete and unusual, and the monastic context makes it worth explaining.
- Greg is a complete working short form that needs no explanation.
- Every European language has a version, so the name crosses a border without translation.
- Gregory is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected toward it constantly.
- The doubled g is inaudible, so it has to be dictated and will still be dropped.
- The name is strongly associated with the middle of the last century in America.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,500 people named Greggory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Greggory is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Greggory will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with G, all years combined.
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