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

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Peak · girls
1943 · 37 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,085
since 1941

Greer over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201941peak #1,342, 1943peak #2,224, 1923girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,844108#3,75729
2024#1,98099#3,98627
2023#2,37976#3,71230
2022#2,14289#4,85020
2021#1,99197#4,78020
2020#2,10087#3,81127
2019#2,21783#4,80620
2018#2,14588#3,89127
2017#2,14489#5,52616
2016#2,01798#5,12418
2015#2,15288#4,08025
2014#2,68365#5,25217
2013#2,83760#4,98118
2012#3,21351#6,00114
2011#3,17352#7,00911
2010#3,12353#4,36622
2009#3,18952#9,8647
2008#3,37749#6,07014
2007#3,21453#7,59010
2006#3,85439#9,5857
2005#3,64640#10,1516
2004#3,12749#8,1438
2003#3,23245#7,8318
2002#3,81034#10,6675
2001#3,70335#7,5368
2000#3,07045#10,3495
1999#2,52756#5,65611
1998#3,11640—
1997#2,39155#6,1009
1996#2,22960#5,53510
1995#2,62347#4,50813
1994#3,23435—
1993#3,15836—
1992#3,03638#6,6707
1991#4,20824#5,9428
1990#3,62329#7,1786
1989#3,89325#6,9416
1988#3,89323—
1987#3,16929—
1986#3,27727—
1985#3,62123#6,5235
1984#2,78132#6,3155
1983#3,80620#5,4846
1982#4,34717—
1981#3,73921—
1980#4,74315#4,9407
1979#4,62615—
1978#5,21412—
1977#4,23516—
1976#4,36314—
1975#3,15522#4,3097
1974#4,22714—
1973#3,23320—
1972#3,40418—
1971#3,94315#3,6588
1970#2,85624—
1969#3,10219—
1968#3,16917#3,3657
1967#2,96318—
1966#2,40725—
1965#2,93818—
1964#2,34827#2,40912
1963#2,70421—
1962#1,94735—
1961#2,67321—
1960#3,21215—
1959#2,76018#3,9885
1958#3,54312—
1957#3,93010#3,9935
1956#3,18614#3,5356
1955#3,09514—
1954#2,69517#3,4526
1953#2,51618#3,7985
1952#2,50218—
1951#3,28411#3,3646
1950#2,65215#3,0217
1949#2,62015—
1948#2,49116#3,0107
1947#1,86327#2,35611
1946#1,91923#2,9197
1945#1,66025#2,9966
1944#2,51113#2,4679
1943#1,34237#2,40510
1942#2,31115#3,2126
1941#4,4205—
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1918—#3,0968
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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.

Where Greer is popular in 1941

No state had 5 or more girls named Greer in 1941, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Greer
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
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s176#1,342 (1943)#2,349
1950s147#2,502 (1952)#3,016
1960s216#1,947 (1962)#2,746
1970s170#2,856 (1970)#3,926
1980s232#2,781 (1984)#3,727
1990s420#2,229 (1996)#3,015
2000s441#3,070 (2000)#3,422
2010s727#2,017 (2016)#2,570
2020s556#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.

Greer in 1941

girls
#4,420
5 births · 1 in 241,624 girls

Top girls' names in 1941

  1. #1Mary58,048
  2. #2Barbara39,543
  3. #3Patricia36,905
  4. #4Carol24,187
  5. #5Linda23,721
  6. #6Judith23,320
  7. #7Betty20,905
  8. #8Nancy20,885
  9. #9Sandra19,500
  10. #10Shirley16,954
  11. #4,420Greer5
More about 1941

girls

1,208,119 girls got a published name in 1941; 1 in 241,624 of them was named Greer, which outranked 13.1% of the 5,085 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Greer
  1. #3,954Zeola6
  2. #3,954Zilphia6
  3. #3,954Zonia6
  4. #4,420Greer5
  5. #4,420Adah5
  6. #4,420Adonna5
  7. #4,420Adra5

Tied with 665 names at #4,420; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1940
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,130Jerilyn#2,737 → #607
  2. ↑ 1,258Trina#2,109 → #851
  3. ↑ 372Karan#1,347 → #975
  4. ↑ 371Kristine#1,313 → #942
  5. ↑ 356Sherri#1,186 → #830
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Kenneth#971 → #1,418
  2. ↓ 421Janna#997 → #1,418
  3. ↓ 366Beatriz#989 → #1,355
  4. ↓ 338Merna#997 → #1,335
  5. ↓ 337Eldora#957 → #1,294

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1941 →