Gregory
Meaning of Gregory
Gregory strides out of ancient Greece like a bright-eyed night watchman, his very name—drawn from the Greek “Gregorios,” meaning “vigilant, alert”—ringing with purpose. He slipped into Latin as Gregorius, climbed medieval throne rooms as sixteen popes, and later sauntered across silver screens in the tall, noble frame of Gregory Peck. Say it aloud—GREG-uh-ree—and the syllables crackle like a friendly campfire; trim it to Greg and you’ve got a backyard buddy, stretch it to Gregory and you’re shaking hands with a future senator. In the U.S. he blazed through the baby-name charts during the go-go ’60s, then glided into quieter popularity, still landing in hundreds of nurseries every year like a seasoned goalie who never misses a shot. From Saint Gregory the Great penning church chants to Greg Heffley doodling in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the name wears its history with an easy grin. For parents hunting a timeless classic that can toggle between playground nicknames and boardroom gravitas, Gregory stands ready—eyes wide open—to guard their little dreamer’s path.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as GREG-uh-ree (/ˈɡrɛɡ.ə.ri/)
German
- Pronunced as GREH-goh-ree (/ˈɡʁeː.ɡoː.ʁi/)
British English
- Pronunced as GREH-guh-ree (/ˈɡrɛ.ɡə.ri/)
French
- Pronunced as gruh-GOHR-ee (/ɡʁe.ɡoʁ.i/)
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Notable People Named Gregory
| Gregory Peck was a renowned American actor, popular from the 1940s to 1970s and named the 12th-greatest male star by the American Film Institute. |
| Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell - Gregory Cromwell was an English nobleman and the only son of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell and Elizabeth Wyckes. |
| Gregory of Narek - Grigor Narekatsi was an Armenian mystical poet, monk, and theologian, venerated as a saint and declared a Doctor of the Church in 2015. |
| Gregory of Nyssa was an early Christian saint and bishop renowned as one of the Cappadocian Fathers. |
| Gregory Palamas was a Byzantine theologian who defended hesychast spirituality and the distinction between God's essence and energies. |
| Gregory Hines was a legendary American tap dancer and actor, celebrated for his roles in films like White Nights and voicing Big Bill on Little Bill. |
| Gregory Porter is an American singer-songwriter who has twice won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, for "Liquid Spirit" in 2014 and "Take Me to the Alley" in 2017. |
| Gregory Goodwin Pincus was an American biologist who co-invented the birth control pill. |
| Gregory Petsko - Gregory A. Petsko is an American biochemist who received the National Medal of Science in 2023. |
| Gregory Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician who co-founded algorithmic information theory, a field foundational to computer science and equivalent to Gödel's incompleteness theorem. |
| Gregory of Utrecht, a noble-born follower of Saint Boniface, served as abbot of St. Martin's Monastery and administered the diocese of Utrecht for 23 years. |
| Gregory John Newell currently serves as president of International Commerce Development Corporation, having previously been U.S. ambassador to Sweden and assistant secretary of state during the U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO. |
| Gregory Keyes is an American science fiction and fantasy author who writes under the names J. Gregory Keyes and Greg Keyes. |
| Gregory II of Constantinople served as the Ecumenical Patriarch from 1283 to 1289. |
| Gregory Hoblit is an acclaimed American director and producer, known for films like Primal Fear and for winning nine Emmy Awards for his television work on series such as Hill Street Blues. |
