Gregory

Via Latin Grēgorius, from post-classical Ancient Greek Γρηγόριος (Grēgórios, “watchful, vigilant”), from Ancient Greek ἐγείρω (egeírō, “awaken, arouse”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɛɡəɹi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɛɡ(ə)ɹi/

Gregory (countable and uncountable, plural Gregorys)

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1990, Jonathan Kellerman, Time Bomb, page 163:

     The surname Graff was chosen because upscale consumers respect anything Teutonic - regard it as efficient, intelligent, and reliable. But only up to a point. A forename like Helmut or Wilhelm wouldn't have done. Too German. Too foreign. 'Gregory' scores high on the likability scale. All-American. Greg. He's one of the boys, with Teutonic ancestry.

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
   • 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” said marine archaeologist David Gregory, a research professor and head of the new maritime research center, Njord, at the National Museum of Denmark, in the news release. […] Gregory led the excavations alongside marine archaeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch, who is also a curator at the National Museum.

3. A small town on the Gregory River in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.
4. A small town and port in the Shire of Northampton, Western Australia.
5. A city in Gregory County, South Dakota, United States.
6. Synonym of Hopewell, Gibson County, Tennessee.
7. A city in San Patricio County, Texas, United States.

Name of early saints, and of 16 popes. Used since Middle Ages; popular in the mid-twentieth century.

• c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  : Act V, Scene III:

  Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have done this day.

• Gregory County
• Stoke St Gregory

• Greg, Gregg, Gregor
• Grigory

• → French: Grégory
• → Hawaiian: Kelekolio
• → Maori: Kerekori

Gregory (plural Gregorys)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened form of Gregory Peck, a neck