Meaning not yet researched.
Glenda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #79 in 1944.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #79 in 1944; #5,987 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Glenda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,987 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1944, at #79.
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Glenda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #79 in 1944 · most girls in one year: 4,215 (1950).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Glenda, making it the 5,987th most common girls’ name of the year, down 634 places from #5,353 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 24 girls named Glenda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #79, reached in 1944. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,215, in 1950. For comparison, it was #5,029 in 2015 and #87 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Glenda in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 109,522 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 35,314 babies named Glenda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 239 US girls were named Glenda; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Glen (127,054 babies since 1880), Gilda (10,078 babies since 1880), Glinda (2,547 babies since 1880) and Glynda (2,425 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Glennda 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Glennda (561).
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 Glenda 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 | 20 | #5,987 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,353 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,449 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,542 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,888 | — | — |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,215 | — | — |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,674 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,369 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,377 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,029 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,693 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,945 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,899 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 2006 | 72 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1999 | 86 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1997 | 118 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1995 | 135 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1994 | 137 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1993 | 143 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1992 | 179 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1991 | 165 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1990 | 175 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1989 | 205 | #898 | — | — |
| 1988 | 172 | #969 | — | — |
| 1987 | 183 | #909 | — | — |
| 1986 | 198 | #842 | — | — |
| 1985 | 213 | #785 | — | — |
| 1984 | 232 | #713 | — | — |
| 1983 | 285 | #613 | — | — |
| 1982 | 323 | #568 | — | — |
| 1981 | 310 | #593 | — | — |
| 1980 | 327 | #567 | — | — |
| 1979 | 297 | #604 | — | — |
| 1978 | 362 | #516 | — | — |
| 1977 | 403 | #477 | — | — |
| 1976 | 455 | #436 | — | — |
| 1975 | 444 | #443 | — | — |
| 1974 | 509 | #398 | — | — |
| 1973 | 566 | #372 | — | — |
| 1972 | 613 | #359 | — | — |
| 1971 | 782 | #333 | — | — |
| 1970 | 893 | #312 | — | — |
| 1969 | 943 | #298 | — | — |
| 1968 | 998 | #272 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,110 | #252 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,367 | #221 | 6 | #3,677 |
| 1965 | 1,514 | #217 | 5 | #4,122 |
| 1964 | 1,863 | #198 | 6 | #3,772 |
| 1963 | 2,051 | #187 | 8 | #3,154 |
| 1962 | 2,457 | #166 | 7 | #3,428 |
| 1961 | 2,600 | #159 | 10 | #2,780 |
| 1960 | 2,689 | #158 | 10 | #2,752 |
| 1959 | 2,839 | #148 | 7 | #3,398 |
| 1958 | 2,981 | #141 | 12 | #2,418 |
| 1957 | 3,200 | #134 | 8 | #3,113 |
| 1956 | 3,245 | #134 | 8 | #3,055 |
| 1955 | 3,344 | #128 | 11 | #2,483 |
| 1954 | 3,734 | #114 | 8 | #3,037 |
| 1953 | 3,655 | #105 | 6 | #3,572 |
| 1952 | 3,880 | #97 | 10 | #2,586 |
| 1951 | 4,135 | #89 | 7 | #3,178 |
| 1950 | 4,215 | #87 | 9 | #2,652 |
| 1949 | 3,975 | #87 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 1948 | 3,831 | #92 | 14 | #2,057 |
| 1947 | 4,156 | #96 | 7 | #3,191 |
| 1946 | 3,568 | #99 | 8 | #2,782 |
| 1945 | 2,963 | #92 | 10 | #2,306 |
| 1944 | 3,367 | #79 | 10 | #2,366 |
| 1943 | 3,403 | #83 | 19 | #1,662 |
| 1942 | 3,089 | #89 | 17 | #1,763 |
| 1941 | 2,643 | #96 | 11 | #2,255 |
| 1940 | 2,353 | #107 | 9 | #2,559 |
| 1939 | 2,286 | #112 | 8 | #2,695 |
| 1938 | 1,958 | #123 | 11 | #2,246 |
| 1937 | 1,536 | #146 | 14 | #1,944 |
| 1936 | 1,366 | #150 | — | — |
| 1935 | 1,144 | #169 | 7 | #3,080 |
| 1934 | 921 | #194 | — | — |
| 1933 | 680 | #232 | — | — |
| 1932 | 288 | #387 | — | — |
| 1931 | 230 | #428 | — | — |
| 1930 | 181 | #495 | — | — |
| 1929 | 184 | #497 | — | — |
| 1928 | 184 | #508 | — | — |
| 1927 | 162 | #556 | — | — |
| 1926 | 167 | #541 | — | — |
| 1925 | 143 | #611 | — | — |
| 1924 | 150 | #613 | — | — |
| 1923 | 123 | #670 | — | — |
| 1922 | 117 | #675 | — | — |
| 1921 | 117 | #687 | — | — |
| 1920 | 110 | #697 | — | — |
| 1919 | 78 | #798 | — | — |
| 1918 | 87 | #766 | — | — |
| 1917 | 81 | #769 | — | — |
| 1916 | 64 | #850 | — | — |
| 1915 | 68 | #800 | — | — |
| 1914 | 52 | #808 | — | — |
| 1913 | 48 | #761 | — | — |
| 1912 | 39 | #798 | — | — |
| 1911 | 26 | #843 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,046 | — | — |
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).