Greg vs Stephen - What's the difference?
greg | stephen |
An English and Scottish male given name, diminutive of Gregory or Gregor (and sometimes derived from the surname Greig)
English diminutives of male given names
The first Christian martyr.
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* 1852 (William Harrison Ainsworth), Tale of a Carpet-Bag , Ainsworth's Magazine, Vol. 21, page 17:
* 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
* 2000 (Helen DeWitt), The Last Samurai , Miramax Books(2002), ISBN 0786887001, page 142:
As proper nouns the difference between greg and stephen
is that greg is an English and Scottish male given name, diminutive of Gregory or Gregor (and sometimes derived from the surname Greig while Stephen is the first Christian martyr.greg
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)stephen
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Alternative forms
* as a given name: StevenProper noun
(en proper noun)- And Stephen , full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
- I, for my part, ask any candid reader if it was not bad enough to be called Broadfoot, without having it aggravated into Stephen Broadfoot? I feel confident I will here get a tear of sympathy from all unhappy Andrews and Peters, and Aarons and Samuels, with a smile of disdainful compassion from thrice-happy Franks and Charleys and Bills.
- It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'', a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'' , ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
- I thought that ideally it should be a name which could work whether he was serious and reserved or butch, a name like Stephen which could be Steve or David which could be Dave.