Grégoire

given name · Latin script

Meaning: du nom grec Grēgorios, dérivé de grēgoros « vigilant »

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡʁeɡwaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Grégoire is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 48K
  • USUnited States1 in 58K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

5,757 people, 2010

Sources
323 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 395 (inferred from the name graph)

Dominica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gregoire in US United States, CA Canada, NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

du nom grec Grēgorios, dérivé de grēgoros « vigilant »

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Grégoire counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Grégoire is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,7571 in 58K5.8KGregoire323
BE Belgium3,4131 in 3.4K3.4KGrégoire58
FR France≈1,400 est.≈1 in 48K27KGrégoire249
CA Canada≈430 est.≈1 in 87K—Gregoire152
NL Netherlands2681 in 64K268Gregoire19
DM Dominica1881 in 395188—3
GP Guadeloupe≈17 est.≈1 in 26K5—2
MQ Martinique≈17 est.≈1 in 26K5—7

5,757 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Grégoire is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Grègoire, Grëgoire, Gregoire

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Gregoire

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Gregoire

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Grégoire is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Du grec gregorios, « vigilant, éveillé »; prénom de saint Grégoire, fêté le 3 septembre (et autres saints homonymes).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Du grec Gregorios, « vigilant »; fête le 3 septembre (saint Grégoire).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Du grec *grēgorios*, « vigilant, éveillé ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, From Greek Gregōrios, meaning “watchful, vigilant”.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, From Greek Gregorios, 'watchful'; St Gregory.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Grigol Peradze, b. 1899Grégoire Aslan, b. 1908Gérard Calvi, b. 1922Grégoire Kayibanda, b. 1924Christian Poveda, b. 1955Grégoire Colin, b. 1975Grégoire, b. 1979Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, b. 1987Henri Saivet, b. 1990Florian Lejeune, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Grégoire,Hi Grégoire, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Grégoire
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202427K#614
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)1957450#813
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—35#8,339
MQ MartiniqueINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)190035#10
MQ MartiniqueINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)195830#49
MQ MartiniqueINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)190530#15
MQ MartiniqueINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)192525#18
MQ MartiniqueINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)192425#17
GP GuadeloupeINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe)195820#59
GP GuadeloupeINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe)195620#53
MQ MartiniqueINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)195520#66
MQ MartiniqueINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)195320#60

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Grégoire a male or female name?
Grégoire is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How do you pronounce Grégoire?
A machine transcription gives /ɡʁeɡwaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Grégoire mean?
Recorded meaning: du nom grec Grēgorios, dérivé de grēgoros « vigilant »
What are other forms of the name Grégoire?
In the etymology graph, Gregory, Greg and Gregorio are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Grégoire have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.8 thousand people named Grégoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gregoire.
Where is Grégoire most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grégoire is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 395 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Grégoire?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,757 people named Grégoire in 2010, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Grégoire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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