Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Greg” in the USA?

Number of people named “Greg” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Greg” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Greg” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Greg” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Greg” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Greg” by birth year

This chart shows how “Greg” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1925 11 0.000004714 11 -100%
1927 9 0.00000388 9 -100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1930 10 0.000004498 10 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 9 0.000004263 9 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 -100%
1935 19 0.000009091 19 -100%
1936 32 0.000015403 32 -100%
1937 34 0.000015957 34 -100%
1938 49 0.000022146 49 -100%
1939 55 0.000024961 55 -100%
1940 57 0.000024754 57 -100%
1941 76 0.000031193 76 -100%
1942 101 0.000036972 101 -100%
1943 145 0.000051372 145 -100%
1944 188 0.000069886 188 -100%
1945 355 0.000133815 355 -100%
1946 806 0.000252245 806 -100%
1947 1316 0.00036532 1316 -100%
1948 1189 0.000344386 1189 -100%
1949 868 0.000249083 868 -100%
1950 804 0.000229494 804 -100%
1951 745 0.00020224 6 739 -98%
1952 769 0.000202475 769 -100%
1953 797 0.000206817 797 -100%
1954 953 0.000239405 953 -100%
1955 1166 0.000290405 1166 -100%
1956 1603 0.000388791 1603 -100%
1957 2977 0.000708448 5 2972 -100%
1958 3795 0.000918018 5 3790 -100%
1959 4637 0.001115202 4637 -100%
1960 5090 0.00122538 5 5085 -100%
1961 5410 0.001306037 12 5398 -100%
1962 5373 0.001331476 6 5367 -100%
1963 4860 0.001227831 7 4853 -100%
1964 3976 0.001022738 5 3971 -100%
1965 3187 0.000879064 6 3181 -100%
1966 2460 0.00070778 6 2454 -100%
1967 2108 0.000620932 8 2100 -99%
1968 2058 0.000609162 11 2047 -99%
1969 1994 0.00057376 9 1985 -99%
1970 2015 0.000558711 9 2006 -99%
1971 1706 0.000497035 11 1695 -99%
1972 1442 0.000458798 5 1437 -99%
1973 1306 0.000432897 6 1300 -99%
1974 1099 0.000361513 1099 -100%
1975 952 0.000315295 952 -100%
1976 863 0.000284415 6 857 -99%
1977 829 0.00026098 5 824 -99%
1978 696 0.000219291 696 -100%
1979 571 0.000171626 571 -100%
1980 558 0.000161997 558 -100%
1981 474 0.000137019 474 -100%
1982 438 0.000124859 438 -100%
1983 414 0.000119538 414 -100%
1984 388 0.000111214 388 -100%
1985 336 0.000094141 5 331 -97%
1986 276 0.000077592 5 271 -96%
1987 286 0.000079321 286 -100%
1988 205 0.00005548 205 -100%
1989 234 0.000060867 234 -100%
1990 204 0.000051613 204 -100%
1991 177 0.00004544 177 -100%
1992 173 0.000045037 173 -100%
1993 148 0.000039254 148 -100%
1994 134 0.000036044 134 -100%
1995 129 0.000035225 129 -100%
1996 112 0.000030709 112 -100%
1997 99 0.000027305 99 -100%
1998 108 0.000029362 108 -100%
1999 85 0.000023011 85 -100%
2000 79 0.0000209 79 -100%
2001 82 0.000021905 82 -100%
2002 70 0.000018725 70 -100%
2003 73 0.000019199 73 -100%
2004 86 0.000022508 86 -100%
2005 91 0.000023668 91 -100%
2006 72 0.000018199 72 -100%
2007 60 0.000015009 60 -100%
2008 68 0.0000173 68 -100%
2009 55 0.000014397 55 -100%
2010 41 0.000011094 41 -100%
2011 45 0.000012303 45 -100%
2012 39 0.000010663 39 -100%
2013 49 0.000013441 49 -100%
2014 27 0.000007285 27 -100%
2015 34 0.000009187 34 -100%
2016 38 0.000010358 38 -100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 -100%
2018 26 0.000007395 26 -100%
2019 28 0.000008067 28 -100%
2020 24 0.000007184 24 -100%
2021 35 0.000010331 35 -100%
2022 22 0.000006503 22 -100%
2023 20 0.00000604 20 -100%
2024 23 0.00000691 23 -100%

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