Gregor
Around 300 Polish men carry it, few enough that most people here have never met one. A version of Grzegorz, from the Greek for "watchful".
Gregor Pronunciation
Gregor is pronounced GRE-gor (/ˈgrɛgɔr/).
What Gregor means
Where Gregor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gregor comes from the Greek verb gregorein, to be watchful or awake. From that root the name carried a plain instruction: stay alert. In English the sense is watchful, alert, and in Polish czuwający.
The name took on a strongly German coloring, and Gregor became a familiar form across German-speaking lands. Franz Kafka gave it to Gregor Samsa, the traveling salesman who wakes one morning transformed, a bitter joke on a name that means awake.
In Poland the same root grew into Grzegorz, the version a teacher still reads down a class register. Grzegorz holds the meaning intact even as the sound shifts hard away from Gregor.
The watchfulness was not decoration. Several early bishops named Gregory guided the church through unsettled centuries, and the name attached itself to vigilance. To carry Gregor is to carry that old command to keep watch.
The meaning stays close to the Greek root: watchful, alert.
How many people are named Gregor
1 in 65479 men in Poland is named Gregor. 326 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1672 among male names.
Gregor's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Gregor as a middle name
Gregor is a first name for 326 men in Poland and a middle name for another 237, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 456th, between Saturnin (238) and Harry (236).
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#454 Noel243
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#455 Saturnin238
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#456 Gregor237
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#457 Harry236
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#458 Pio236