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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | |
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| 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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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.
See more about Greer
- 136 spots since 2024 (#1,980 → #1,844)
- 256 spots since 2020 (#2,100 → #1,844)
- 308 spots since 2015 (#2,152 → #1,844)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1943 at #1,342 (37 births)
- Births halved by 1944, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 23.6% of all girls named Greer (727) were born in this decade
- 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.
Greer in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 20,285 of them was named Greer, which outranked 88.8% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,138Mayte89
- #2,138Raine89
- #2,138Zaya89
- #2,152Greer88
- #2,152Amor88
- #2,152Arizona88
- #2,152Baileigh88
- #2,169Agatha87
- #2,169Ameena87
- #2,169Annaleah87
Tied with 16 names at #2,152; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 76,670 of them was named Greer, which outranked 71.0% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,982Yulian26
- #3,982Zeth26
- #3,982Zymere26
- #4,080Greer25
- #4,080Abdulahi25
- #4,080Abir25
- #4,080Aboubacar25
- #4,179Adael24
- #4,179Aiven24
- #4,179Ajdin24
Tied with 98 names at #4,080; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.