# Grigory (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/grigory/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Grigori |
| US babies named this | 5 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Russian Григо́рий (Grigórij), from Medieval Greek Γρηγόριος (Grēgórios). Doublet of Gregory.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | 12,719 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Գրիգորի
- Hungarian: Grigorij
- Polish: Grzegorz
- Russian: Григо́рий
- Ukrainian: Григо́рій

## People named Grigory

- Grigory Rodchenkov, former Russian doping executive
- Grigory Butakov, Admiral of the Russian Empire Navy (1820-1882)
- Grigory Korganov, Georgian revolutionary (1886－1918)
- Grigori Kromanov, Estonian film director (1926-1984)
- Grigol Tsereteli, Georgian classical philologist (1870–1938)
- Hryhoriy Holoskevych
- Grigori Chirkin, footballer from Russia

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.