Gregory

A male given name: from a Greek word meaning “watchful.”.

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The masculine first name Gregory derives from the Latin name "Gregorius," which came from the late Greek name "Γρηγόριος" (Grēgorios) meaning "watchful, alert" (derived from Greek "γρηγoρεῖν" "grēgorein" meaning "to watch").
Through folk etymology, the name also became associated with Latin grex (stem greg–) meaning "flock" or "herd". This association with a shepherd who diligently guides his flock contributed to the name's popularity among monks and popes.
Sixteen popes have used the name Gregorius, starting with Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great). It is the second-most popular name for pope, after John. Because of this background, it is also a very common name for saints. Although the name was uncommon in the early 20th century, after the popularity of the actor Gregory Peck it became one of the ten most common male names in the 1950s and has remained popular since.

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Masc. proper name, popular in England and Scotland by mid-12c. (Pope Gregory I sent the men who converted the English to Christianity), nativization of Late Latin Gregorius, literally "wakeful" (equivalent to Latin Vigilantius), from Greek gregorios, a derivative of gregoros "to be watchful," from PIE root *ger- (2) "to be awake" (source also of Sanskrit jagarti "he is awake," Avestan agarayeiti "wakes up, rouses"). At times confused with Latin gregarius (see gregarious).

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Vigilant, watcher, watchman, watchful, alert.

Gregorio, Georgy, Gregorios, Gregg, Craig, Gregor, Grigory, Grishka, Greg, Ari, Grigoriy, Georgiy, George, Grigori

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Gregory Peck	1916	American actor
2	Gregory Porter	1971	American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actor
3	Gregory House	1959	Protagonist of the American television series House
4	Gregory Hines	1946	American actor and dancer
5	Dick Gregory	1932	American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur
6	Gregory Helms	1974	Professional wrestler
7	Philippa Gregory	1954	English novelist
8	Gregory Smith	1983	Canadian/American actor
9	Gregory Harrison	1950	American actor
10	Gregory Scarpa	1928	American mobster
11	Gregory van der Wiel	1988	Dutch footballer
12	Gregory Sierra	1941	American actor
13	Gregory David Roberts	1952	Australian writer and bank robber
14	Gregory Hemingway	1931	American physician
15	Randy Gregory	1992	American football player
16	Gregory D. Gadson	1966	United States Army officer
17	Gregory Isaacs	1951	Jamaican musician
18	Gregory Bateson	1904	English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
19	Gregory Alan Isakov	1979	South African musician
20	Gregory Chelli	1982	French sionist activist
21	Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell	1520	English peer
22	Gregory Jbara	1961	American actor
23	Leo Gregory	1978	British actor
24	Anita Gregory	1925	British psychologist
25	Gregory Alan Williams	1956	Actor, author
26	Gregory Crewdson	1962	American photographer
27	Gregory of Nazianzus	0329	Christian saint, bishop, and theologian
28	Gregory Jarvis	1944	American astronaut
29	Benji Gregory	1978	American actor
30	Kimberly Hebert Gregory		American actress
31	Dorian Gregory	1971	American actor
32	Gregory of Nyssa	0335	Bishop of Nyssa
33	Gregory Itzin	1948	Actor from the United States
34	Gregory Abbott	1954	American Pop/Rhythm and Blues singer, songwriter and producer
35	Andre Gregory	1934	Director and actor
36	Gregory Maguire	1954	Novelist
37	Gregory B. Waldis	1967	Swiss actor
38	Augusta, Lady Gregory	1852	Irish playwright, poet, folklorist
39	Gregory of Tours	0538	Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours
40	Gregory Corso	1930	American writer
41	Gregory the Illuminator	0252	Patron saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
42	Jacob Gregory		Indian actor
43	Natalie Gregory	1975	American actress
44	Gregory Polanco	1991	Dominican professional baseball player
45	Lee Gregory	1988	English footballer
46	Gregory Sporleder	1964	American actor
47	Gregory Walcott	1928	Actor
48	Brian Gregory	1966	American basketball player
49	Gregory Meeks	1953	American politician
50	Gregory Hoblit	1944	American film director, television director and television producer
51	Glenn Gregory	1958	English musician
52	Gregory Benford	1941	Science fiction author and astrophysicist
53	Gregory of Narek	0951	Armenian monk
54	Gregory Jacobs		American film director and producer
55	Gregory Goodwin Pincus	1903	American biochemist
56	Oana Gregory	1996	American actress
57	Gregory Palamas	1296	Monk and archbishop
58	Sandra Gregory	1965	British drug trafficker
59	Frederick D. Gregory	1941	American astronaut
60	Will Gregory	1959	English musician and record producer
61	Gregory Chaitin	1947	Argentinian mathematician and computer scientist
62	Gregory R. Page	1951	American businessman
63	Gregory Iron	1986	Professional wrestler
64	Gregory Nava	1949	American film director and producer
65	Gregory Doran	1958	British theatre director
66	Gregory Campbell	1953	British politician
67	Gregory Powell	1933
68	Gregory Lee Johnson	1956	American activist
69	Gregory Mertens	1991	Belgian footballer
70	Gregory and the Hawk		American musician
71	Gregory Dark	1957	American artist
72	Gregory Widen	1958	American screenwriter
73	Gregory L. Fenves
74	Gregory Paul Martin	1962	British writer and television, film, and stage actor
75	Gregory Michael	1981	American actor
76	Gregory III Laham	1933	Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch
77	Gregory Olsen	1945	American astronaut and businessman
78	Maundy Gregory	1877	British theatre producer
79	Gregory Ratoff	1897	Russian-American actor, director and producer
80	Roger Gregory	1953	American judge
81	Gregory of Nin	0900	Croatian bishop
82	James Gregory	1946	American comedian
83	Adam Gregory	1985	Canadian musician
84	Alex Gregory	1984	British rower
85	Masten Gregory	1932	Racecar driver
86	Gregory DePalma	1932	American mobster
87	Julie Gregory	1969	American writer
88	Gregory H. Williams		American university president
89	Gregory Blaxland	1778	English explorer in Australia
90	Bryan Gregory	1951	American musician
91	Gregory Wong	1978
92	Gregory S. Forbes	1950	American meteorologist
93	Gregory S. Paul	1954	U.S. researcher, author, paleontologist, and illustrator
94	Gregory Keyes	1963	Writer of science fiction and fantasy
95	Susanna Gregory	1958	Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer
96	Gregory Nagy	1942	American classical scholar
97	Gregory Mosher	1949	American film director
98	Gregory Charles Rivers	1965	Australian actor
99	Gregory Thaumaturgus	0213	Christian bishop
100	Michael Gregory	1944	American actor
101	Gregory Rabassa	1922	American translator
102	Gregory Gaye	1900	Actor
103	Richard Gregory	1923	British psychologist
104	Gregory Reid Wiseman	1975	American astronaut
105	Greg Craig	1945	American lawyer
106	Chester Gregory	1968	American actor
107	Gregory Davis	1979	British murderer
108	Gregory Mcdonald	1937	American mystery writer
109	Gregory Echenique	1990	Venezuelan basketball playe
110	Paul Gregory	1920	American film producer
111	William G. Gregory	1957	American astronaut
112	Gregory La Cava	1892	American film director
113	Gregory Raposo	1985	American actor and singer
114	Gregory Snegoff	1955	American actor
115	Gregory C. Coleman	1944	American musician
116	Gregory Chamitoff	1962	American astronaut
117	Gregory Brazel	1954	Serial killer
118	Steve Gregory	1983	American football player
119	Hryhorii Skovoroda	1722	Ukrainian philosopher
120	Celia Gregory	1949	British actress
121	Gregory Colbert	1960	Canadian photographer
122	Gregory Charles	1968	Canadian actor
123	Gregory Wasson	1958	American businessman
124	Gregory Cochran	1953	American anthropologist
125	Gregory Breit	1899	American physicist
126	Gregory Clark	1957	British economic historian
127	Gregory Stanton		American activist
128	Gregory Kunde	1954	American opera singer
129	Wilton Daniel Gregory	1947	Roman Catholic archbishop
130	Gregory C. Carr	1959	American businessman
131	Gregory G. Garre	1964	United States Solicitors General
132	Gregory H. Johnson	1962	American astronaut
133	Gregory Hatanaka		American film director
134	Kenny Gregory	1978	American basketball player
135	Gregory Goodman		American film producer
136	Tony Gregory	1947	1947-2009, Irish Independent politician
137	Gregory Zuckerman		American journalist
138	Gregory Allen Howard	1962	Screenwriter
139	David A. Gregory	1985	American actor
140	Nick Gregory	1960	American television meteorologist
141	Gregory Slay	1969	American musician
142	Sebastian Gregory	1990	Actor
143	Gregory Burke	1968	Scottish playwright
144	Gregory Scott Cummins	1956	American actor
145	Gregory Pardlo	1968	American writer
146	Gregory J. Bonann	1952	American television director, television producer and screenwriter
147	Gregory Penske		American soccer player
148	Gregory Cohen	1968	French polo player
149	Gregory Vlastos	1907	Greek scholar
150	Andy Gregory	1961	English rugby league footballer, and coach
151	Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople	1745	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
152	Gregory Jaczko	1970	Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission since 2009
153	Gregory Kingsley	1980	American child
154	Troy Gregory	1966	American musician
155	Gregory Dickow	1964	American pastor
156	Mike Gregory	1964	English rugby league footballer, and coach
157	Gregory Rogove		American songwriter
158	Derek Gregory	1951	British geographer
159	Gregory Vargas	1986
160	Gregory Beale	1949	Scholar
161	Thomas Watt Gregory	1861	American lawyer
162	Cynthia Gregory	1946	American dancer
163	Gregory Michael Aymond	1949	Catholic bishop
164	Gregory the Patrician		Byzantine Exarch of Africa
165	Gregory Possehl	1941	Professor of Anthropology
166	Thea Gregory	1929	Actress
167	Joseph Gregory	1900	Canadian military sniper
168	William Henry Gregory	1817	Anglo-Irish writer and politician
169	Mary Gregory	1856	American artist
170	Gregory C. Johnson	1954	American astronaut
171	Gregory Howard Woods	1969	United States District Judge
172	Gregory A. Phillips	1960	United States Circuit Judge
173	Gregory Ain	1908	American architect
174	Gregory Prince	1948	American pathology researcher, author, and Latter Day Saint historian
175	Gregory Wilson	1961	American magician
176	Gregory Alan Thornbury	1970	American academic
177	Gregory Stock	1949	Biophysicist, best-selling author, biotech entrepreneur
178	Gregory Dix	1901	English Benedictine monk
179	David Gregory	1659	British astronomer and mathematician
180	Scott Gregory	1994
181	Gregory Nelson	1988	Dutch professional footballer
182	Gregory Chow	1930	Economist, inventor of Chow test
183	Gregory Baum	1923	Canadian theologian
184	Stephen Gregory	1965	American actor
185	Gregory Poirier	1961	American film director and screenwriter
186	Deborah Gregory		American writer and producer
187	Kirby Gregory	1953	British rock guitarist
188	Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro		Data scientist and co-founder of KDD conferences and ACM SIGKDD association
189	Augustus Charles Gregory	1819	Australian explorer
190	Gregory Parkes	1964	Roman Catholic bishop
191	Gregory So	1958	Hong Kong politician
192	Gregory Markopoulos	1928	American filmmaker
193	Constantine Gregory	1942	American actor
194	Peter Gregory	1992	English footballer
195	Gregory Berns		American Neuroeconomist, neuroscientist, psychiatrist, psychologist and writer
196	Roman Gregory	1971	Austrian television presenter
197	Gregory Kaidanov	1959	American-Ukrainian chess player
198	Gregory King	1648	British genealogist and statistician
199	Robert Gregory	1881	Irish cricketer
200	Gregory B. Starr	1953	United Nations official