Grégoire
given name · Latin script
Meaning: du nom grec Grēgorios, dérivé de grēgoros « vigilant »
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2024
/ɡʁe.ɡwaʁ/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Grégoire is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DMDominica1 in 395(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 3.4K
- MQMartinique≈1 in 8.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 323 (measured from records)
- 1 in 395 (inferred from the name graph)
5,757 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
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)du nom grec Grēgorios, dérivé de grēgoros « vigilant »
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,757 | 1 in 58K | 5.8K | Gregoire | 323 |
| BE Belgium | 3,413 | 1 in 3.4K | 3.4K | Grégoire | 58 |
| FR France | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 27K | Grégoire | 249 |
| CA Canada | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Gregoire | 152 |
| NL Netherlands | 268 | 1 in 64K | 268 | Gregoire | 19 |
| DM Dominica | 188 | 1 in 395 | 188 | — | 3 |
| MQ Martinique | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 5 | — | 7 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 5 | — | 2 |
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 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)- Grigol Peradzeb. 1899GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian theologian (1899–1942)
- Grégoire Aslanb. 1908FRSwiss-Armenian actor and musician
- Gérard Calvib. 1922FRnot in their usual nameFrench composer (1922–2015)
- Grégoire Kayibandab. 1924RWRwandan politician, 1st and former President of Rwanda (1924-1976)
- Christian Povedab. 1955FRnot in their usual nameFrench journalist (1955–2009)
- Grégoire Colinb. 1975FRFrench actor
- Grégoireb. 1979FRFrench singer-songwriter
- Grégoire Leprince-Ringuetb. 1987FRFrench actor
- Henri Saivetb. 1990SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese footballer (born 1990)
- Florian Lejeuneb. 1991FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 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)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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
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. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024).
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Grégoire?
- In French /ɡʁe.ɡwaʁ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Grégoire mean?
- Recorded meaning: du nom grec Grēgorios, dérivé de grēgoros « vigilant »
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gr%C3%A9goireThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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 2026-10-13.