Given name & surname
Macgregor
“the son of Gregor”
Macgregor is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “the son of Gregor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “the son of Gregor.”
How it developed
From Scottish Gaelic MacGriogair (“son of gregory”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Macgregor through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 282
- 282 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 338 as a first name in 2020; 5,024 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Macgregor’s family of names
Macgregor has a related form in McGregor. In English usage, Macgregor as a surname has a related form in McGregor. In English usage, Macgregor as a surname was borrowed from the Scottish Gaelic form MacGriogair.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Macgregor
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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