Greer
#1,844 for girls in 2025, 108 births · #3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births
Given to girls 80.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1943 · 37 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,085since 1941
Greer over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,844 | 108 | #3,757 | 29 |
| 2024 | #1,980 | 99 | #3,986 | 27 |
| 2023 | #2,379 | 76 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #2,142 | 89 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #1,991 | 97 | #4,780 | 20 |
| 2020 | #2,100 | 87 | #3,811 | 27 |
| 2019 | #2,217 | 83 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | #2,145 | 88 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #2,144 | 89 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #2,017 | 98 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #2,152 | 88 | #4,080 | 25 |
| 2014 | #2,683 | 65 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #2,837 | 60 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 | #4,366 | 22 |
| 2009 | #3,189 | 52 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #3,377 | 49 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #3,214 | 53 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #3,854 | 39 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #3,646 | 40 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #3,127 | 49 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #3,703 | 35 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #3,070 | 45 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #2,527 | 56 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #3,116 | 40 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,391 | 55 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #2,229 | 60 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #2,623 | 47 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #3,234 | 35 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,158 | 36 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,036 | 38 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #4,208 | 24 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #3,893 | 25 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #3,893 | 23 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,169 | 29 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,277 | 27 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,155 | 22 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,233 | 20 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #2,856 | 24 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,102 | 19 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #2,963 | 18 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,407 | 25 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,348 | 27 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1963 | #2,704 | 21 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,947 | 35 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,673 | 21 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,212 | 15 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,760 | 18 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,186 | 14 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,095 | 14 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,695 | 17 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #2,516 | 18 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1949 | #2,620 | 15 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,491 | 16 | #3,010 | 7 |
| 1947 | #1,863 | 27 | #2,356 | 11 |
| 1946 | #1,919 | 23 | #2,919 | 7 |
| 1945 | #1,660 | 25 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #2,511 | 13 | #2,467 | 9 |
| 1943 | #1,342 | 37 | #2,405 | 10 |
| 1942 | #2,311 | 15 | #3,212 | 6 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
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| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,451 | 7 | |
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| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,224 | 14 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1941
The first year at least five girls were named Greer! It came in at #4,420, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1941, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 136 spots since 2024 (#1,980 → #1,844)
- 256 spots since 2020 (#2,100 → #1,844)
- 308 spots since 2015 (#2,152 → #1,844)
Rise & fade · girls
2 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1943 at #1,342 (37 births)
- Births halved by 1944, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,882
- Highest: 1 in 14,882 girls born in 2025 were named Greer (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,342 in 1943, was only 1 in 37,711 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 23.6% of all girls named Greer (727) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1941
- Mostly boys until 1940, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 176 | #1,342 (1943) | #2,349 |
| 1950s | 147 | #2,502 (1952) | #3,016 |
| 1960s | 216 | #1,947 (1962) | #2,746 |
| 1970s | 170 | #2,856 (1970) | #3,926 |
| 1980s | 232 | #2,781 (1984) | #3,727 |
| 1990s | 420 | #2,229 (1996) | #3,015 |
| 2000s | 441 | #3,070 (2000) | #3,422 |
| 2010s | 727 | #2,017 (2016) | #2,570 |
| 2020s | 556 | #1,844 (2025) | #2,073 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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