Gregor

Where Gregor comes from

The dictionaries list Gregor as a given name — a male given name from Ancient Greek, a Scottish form of Gregory — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
Along the way
  1. 1897
    Debut at its peak, #1,057
    #1,057 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek, a Scottish form of Gregory.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Gregor hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.