Gregg
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Gregory and Gregor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gregg is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Canada it is the 96th most common given name.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 680as Greg(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 842as Greg
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 880as Greg
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gregg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #360 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 628 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 680 (inferred from the name graph)
≈760,000 named Greg, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est., as Greg
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Greg in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
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)
A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Gregory and Gregor.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gregg 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Greg | 61 |
| US United States | #153 | 244,493as Craig | 1 in 1.4K | 244K | Greg | 628 |
| CA Canada | #96 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 842 | 3 | Greg | 335 |
| GB United Kingdom | #231 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 6 | Greg | 308 |
| AU Australia | #114 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 680 | 81 | Greg | 303 |
| NZ New Zealand | #96 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 880 | 12 | Greg | 165 |
| IE Ireland | #121 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 11 | Greg | 113 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). 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)
Gregg is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Reduced form of Gregory.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Gregg Tolandb. 1904USAmerican cinematographer (1904–1948)
- Gregg Allmanb. 1947USAmerican musician (1947–2017)
- Gregg Popovichb. 1949USAmerican basketball coach
- Gregg Bergerb. 1950USAmerican actor (born 1950)
- Gregg Henryb. 1952USAmerican actor
- Gregg L. Semenzab. 1956USAmerican physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers
- Gregg Arakib. 1959USAmerican film director
- Gregg Hoffmanb. 1963USAmerican film producer (1963-2005)
- Gregg Turkingtonb. 1967USAmerican comedian
- Gregg Sulkinb. 1992GBBritish actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 30K | #1,240 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 104 | #1,240 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1993 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2002 | 5 | #344 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2016 | 1 | #787 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 1 | #787 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1965 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2012 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
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 Gregg a male or female name?
- Gregg 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.
- What does the name Gregg mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Gregory and Gregor. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Gregg?
- In the etymology graph, Greg, Gregorio and Grzegorz are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Gregory.
- In which country does Gregg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 760 thousand people named Greg in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gregg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 244,493 people named Craig in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Gregg compared with other names?
- In Canada, Gregg is the 96th most common given name of 188,338 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/greggThe 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, “Gregg” — the 96th most common given name in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.