Grigore
From the Greek for "watchful, alert". Only around 360 men in Poland carry it, all of them men and none of them children: most Poles will never meet one.
Grigore Pronunciation
Grigore is pronounced gree-GO-re (/griˈgɔrɛ/).
What Grigore means
Where Grigore comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Grigore goes back to the Greek Gregorios, a name built on the verb gregorein, meaning to keep watch or to stay awake. From that root comes the short meaning still fixed to it now: watchful, alert. The name once described a duty. It marked someone trusted to stay awake while others slept.
In the early Christian centuries, that sense made Gregorios a favorite for bishops and shepherds of the faithful, men expected to guard a flock and notice trouble before it arrived. Several of them, including Gregory of Nazianzus in the fourth century, carried the name into the church calendar, and the association with watchfulness rode along with it. So the meaning is not a later decoration. It sat inside the word from the start.
A boy named Grigore today rarely hears the Greek verb behind his name, and on a school register the entry looks like any other. Yet the sense holds. To read the name is to read an old instruction about attention, about being the one who stays alert. That is what gregorein asked, and that is what Grigore still means: watchful.
How many people are named Grigore
1 in 59460 men in Poland is named Grigore. 359 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1582 among male names.
Grigore as a middle name
Grigore is a first name for 359 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4739th, between Gosław (5) and Gu (5).
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#4737 Gon5
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#4738 Gosław5
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#4739 Grigore5
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#4740 Gu5
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#4741 Gyunal5