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Greg

Rooted in Greek, Greg is a boy's name that means "Greek grēgorios, watchful, alert". It belongs mostly to the 1960s at this point. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

EtymologyShort for Gregory
GreekGreek "grēgorios" – "watchful, alert"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
7
1920s
53
1930s
242
1940s
5,102
1950s
18,257
1960s
36,530
1970s
11,493
1980s
3,611
1990s
1,367
2000s
735
2010s
298
Peaked in the 1960s · 77,695 total U.S. births since 1900