Greer
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Greer
This attractive Scottish surname choice, has a certain amount of glamour thanks to feisty British-born red-haired forties Academy Award winner Greer Garson, who was born Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson--Greer was her Irish mother's maiden name). Greer was chosen much more recently by Kelsey Grammer for his daughter and by Brooke Shields in the Grier form. As a surname, it's associated with feminist writer/activist Germaine Greer.
Greer for girls#1851 US
Greer makes a good, strong, sophisticated and distinctive middle-name prospect.
Greer for boys#3789 US
Greer is typically used as a girl name in the US, particularly in this form. The spelling Grier is gender-neutral, given to boys about 43 percent of the time.
Pronounced GREER.
As of October 2026, Greer ranked #1851 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1347 in 1943, Nameberry popularity #534.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,697 | 65 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #2,155 | 88 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2016 | #2,020 | 98 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,148 | 89 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #2,152 | 88 | #3,923 | 27 |
| 2019 | #2,225 | 83 | #4,853 | 20 |
| 2020 | #2,108 | 87 | #3,853 | 27 |
| 2021 | #1,996 | 97 | #4,824 | 20 |
| 2022 | #2,147 | 89 | #4,906 | 20 |
| 2023 | #2,383 | 76 | #3,739 | 30 |
| 2024 | #1,980 | 99 | #4,001 | 27 |
| 2025 | #1,851 | 108 | #3,789 | 29 |
World rankings
Greer for girls
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Famous Greers
- (Eileen Evelyn) Greer GarsonGirl
British,American actress
- Greer "Cat" StevensGirl
South African tennis player
- Greer Ilene GilmanGirl
American fantasy novelist
- Greer SchpiglerGirl
American child beauty queen on TV's "Toddlers and Tiaras"
- Germaine GreerGirl
Australian feminist theorist and author
- Kandace "Greer" GrammerGirl
actress and daughter of actor Kelsey Grammer
- Emma Greer DiBiaseGirl
American Internet personality
Greer in pop culture
- Greer of KinrossGirl
character on the CW's "Reign"
- Greer DanvilleGirl
character on TV's "Chasing Life"
- Greer SonnelGirl
character on Star Wars novel "Bloodline"