Entry № 3798 · Scottish origin

Greer Greer — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Watchful (Greer Garson, 7-time Oscar nominee)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "watchful (greer garson, 7-time oscar nominee)".

Greer is the Scottish contracted form of Gregor — from the Greek grēgorios (watchful, vigilant). Roosevelt. Greer Childers — American fitness celebrity. Reverend Greer — Murder, She Wrote recurring character.

Watchful. Miniver 1942 win.

The name in its native script.

Greer
Transliteration
Greer
Pronunciation
/ ɡrɪər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Greer stands.

Greer does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Greers before her.

Real people
Greer Garson
British-American 7x Oscar nominee.
1904 – 1996
Germaine Greer
Australian writer.
born 1939
Greer Grammer
American actress.
born 1992
In fiction
Greer
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Greer.

The number behind Greer.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Greer reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.