Greg

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Greg: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Greg: Recorded since 1978, it reached #166 in 1987, and it stood at #4,789 in 2021.

3registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
44years from first to last
#166highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#354
1997	#341
1998	#412
1999	#387
2000	#537
2001	#590
2002	#907
2003	#1410
2004	#875
2005	#1047
2006	#1892
2007	#2211
2008	#2775
2009	#3744
2010	#2036
2012	#3987
2013	#3822
2014	#4632
2015	#3908
2017	#3996
2020	#4608
2021	#4789

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 30 of the 38 years from 1978 to 2015.

In 2015: #699 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #3908 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1978–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1978
First recorded at #283 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1978 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1978–2015
Highest recorded position: #166 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1987 (recorded 1978–2015).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #4789 among boys in England and Wales, in 2021.
England and Wales · Boys

Greg appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1978, and has registered 226 births with the name.

Greg across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Greg's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#283 (1978)	#166 (1987)	#699 (2015)	30 of 38	226 (1978–2015)	17 (1999)
England and Wales · Boys	#354 (1996)	#341 (1997)	#4789 (2021)	22 of 26	450 (1996–2021)	70 (1997)

Greg by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Greg in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	4	1 of 10	4
1980s	64	8 of 10	8
1990sbusiest	103	10 of 10	10
2000s	44	8 of 10	6
2010s	11	3 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Greg appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1978 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #166 in Republic of Ireland in 1987.

Greg's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2036	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2211	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1047	20	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#875	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#907	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#590	32	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#537	36	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#387	58	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#412	53	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#341	70	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#354	65	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#542	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#354	7	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#390	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	8	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#223	9	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#169	17	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#242	6	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#242	9	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#295	5	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#241	7	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#208	9	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#184	14	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#202	10	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#193	11	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#175	15	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#180	12	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#215	7	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#166	16	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#217	8	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#269	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#234	6	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#226	7	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Greg is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Greg, between 1978 and 2021, in 37 of those 44 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1978–2015	30	#166 in 1987
England and Wales	1996–2021	22	#341 in 1997
Northern Ireland	2000	1	#277 in 2000

Its high point came 13 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1987) than in Northern Ireland (2000).

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1978 and 2021, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #166, first reached in 1987.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 70 births, registered in England and Wales in 1997.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 22 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Grazyna · #220, 23y
Great · #2263, 12y
Gregg · #273, 16y
Gregor · #277, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Seana · #162, 33y
Byron · #175, 32y
Melina · #156, 41y
Tyra · #176, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Kyra · #166, 35y
Eadaoin · #165, 52y
Kealan · #168, 46y
Sidney · #168, 32y

Greg was ranked #166 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1987. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Allan#166
Connor#166
Dwayne#166
Garrett#166
Arthur#172
Colum#172
Fionn#172
Joshua#172

Greg and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Greg without appearing here.

Greg moved ahead of

Roger
In 2005 they stood at #500 and #500 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2006 that had become #354 and #493.
Ronald
In 2003 they stood at #500 and #500 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2004 that had become #390 and #506.
Graeme
In 1995 they stood at #241 and #168 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 1996 that had become #295 and #336.

Moved ahead of Greg

Braxton
In 2011 they stood at #2036 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #3987 and #569.
Hans
In 2013 they stood at #3822 and #4685 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #4632 and #1819.
Matheo
In 2019 they stood at #3996 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2076.
Robyn
In 2019 they stood at #3908 and #4747 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2228.

Moved the opposite way to Greg

Aaron
Between 1978 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Greg went from #283 to #699 while Aaron went from #111 to #26.
Adam
Between 1978 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Greg went from #283 to #699 while Adam went from #121 to #6.
Alex
Between 1978 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Greg went from #283 to #699 while Alex went from #255 to #13.
Alexander
Between 1978 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Greg went from #283 to #699 while Alexander went from #134 to #46.

Moved the same way as Greg

Adrian
Between 1978 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Greg went from #283 to #699 and Adrian from #43 to #173.
Alfred
Between 1978 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Greg went from #283 to #699 and Alfred from #255 to #421.
Denis
Between 1978 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Greg went from #283 to #699 and Denis from #57 to #180.
Edward
Between 1978 and 2015 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Greg went from #283 to #699 and Edward from #32 to #95.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1978 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #166 in Republic of Ireland in 1987. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Greg

Greg at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Greg across 2 official records

Greg by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Greg appears in

Popularity data

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Greg at a glance

Greg across 2 official records

Greg by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Greg appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Greg

Greg and the names beside it

Greg moved ahead of

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