Meaning not yet researched.
Gladis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #877 in 1909.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #877 in 1909; #9,065 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gladis in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,065 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1909, at #877.
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Gladis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #877 in 1909 · most girls in one year: 69 (1990).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Gladis, making it the 9,065th most common girls’ name of the year, up 738 places from #9,803 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 10 girls named Gladis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #877, reached in 1909. The most girls given the name in a single year was 69, in 1990. For comparison, it was #7,085 in 2015 and #2,378 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gladis in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 7 babies. In all, 3,076 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 567 babies named Gladis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 115 US girls were named Gladis; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gladys (267,741 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gladie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gladie (162).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gladis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,065 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,803 | — | — |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,206 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,401 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,767 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,582 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,776 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,300 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,014 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,074 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,085 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,682 | — | — |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,903 | — | — |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,967 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,665 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,303 | — | — |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,046 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,116 | — | — |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,284 | — | — |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,582 | — | — |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,541 | — | — |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,507 | — | — |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,223 | — | — |
| 1990 | 69 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,712 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,025 | — | — |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,774 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,173 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,627 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,337 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,421 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,126 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,307 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,368 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,863 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,839 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,139 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,915 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,862 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,453 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,509 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,486 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,700 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,220 | — | — |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,669 | — | — |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,166 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,845 | — | — |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,011 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,747 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,319 | — | — |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1930 | 36 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1927 | 49 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1926 | 54 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,423 | 5 | #4,484 |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1923 | 58 | #980 | — | — |
| 1922 | 52 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1921 | 44 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1920 | 51 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1918 | 39 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1916 | 50 | #970 | — | — |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1914 | 36 | #995 | — | — |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1909 | 22 | #877 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,423 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).