Meaning not yet researched.
Glenna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #256 in 1931.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #256 in 1931; #12,349 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Glenna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,349 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1931, at #256.
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Glenna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #256 in 1931 · most girls in one year: 645 (1951).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Glenna, making it the 12,349th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #256, reached in 1931. The most girls given the name in a single year was 645, in 1951. For comparison, it was #12,230 in 2015 and #317 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Glenna in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 25,629 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 5,182 babies named Glenna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 82 US girls were named Glenna; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Glena, Glynna and Glyna 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Glena (1,078), Glynna (212), Glyna (5).
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 Glenna 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 | 7 | #12,349 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,587 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,713 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,088 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,557 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,777 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,858 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,539 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,075 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,230 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,173 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,817 | — | — |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,623 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,654 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,704 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,810 | — | — |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,079 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,183 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,779 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,220 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,054 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,402 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,057 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,722 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,553 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,010 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,867 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,654 | — | — |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,663 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,073 | — | — |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1985 | 47 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1977 | 77 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1976 | 85 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1975 | 99 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1974 | 87 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1973 | 91 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1972 | 117 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1971 | 143 | #912 | — | — |
| 1970 | 132 | #963 | — | — |
| 1969 | 142 | #883 | — | — |
| 1968 | 137 | #881 | — | — |
| 1967 | 161 | #783 | — | — |
| 1966 | 152 | #804 | — | — |
| 1965 | 164 | #775 | — | — |
| 1964 | 210 | #714 | — | — |
| 1963 | 241 | #652 | — | — |
| 1962 | 298 | #570 | — | — |
| 1961 | 258 | #633 | — | — |
| 1960 | 286 | #585 | — | — |
| 1959 | 297 | #567 | — | — |
| 1958 | 310 | #554 | — | — |
| 1957 | 324 | #532 | — | — |
| 1956 | 404 | #458 | — | — |
| 1955 | 461 | #411 | — | — |
| 1954 | 521 | #379 | — | — |
| 1953 | 539 | #365 | — | — |
| 1952 | 583 | #342 | — | — |
| 1951 | 645 | #310 | — | — |
| 1950 | 600 | #317 | — | — |
| 1949 | 567 | #327 | — | — |
| 1948 | 587 | #321 | — | — |
| 1947 | 613 | #312 | — | — |
| 1946 | 530 | #323 | — | — |
| 1945 | 453 | #318 | — | — |
| 1944 | 512 | #298 | — | — |
| 1943 | 500 | #311 | — | — |
| 1942 | 489 | #310 | — | — |
| 1941 | 463 | #300 | — | — |
| 1940 | 463 | #294 | 5 | #3,652 |
| 1939 | 456 | #292 | — | — |
| 1938 | 463 | #291 | — | — |
| 1937 | 499 | #277 | — | — |
| 1936 | 425 | #296 | — | — |
| 1935 | 479 | #278 | — | — |
| 1934 | 516 | #270 | — | — |
| 1933 | 504 | #276 | — | — |
| 1932 | 515 | #273 | — | — |
| 1931 | 564 | #256 | — | — |
| 1930 | 555 | #269 | — | — |
| 1929 | 477 | #306 | — | — |
| 1928 | 519 | #289 | — | — |
| 1927 | 429 | #325 | — | — |
| 1926 | 467 | #306 | — | — |
| 1925 | 410 | #329 | — | — |
| 1924 | 399 | #337 | — | — |
| 1923 | 391 | #327 | — | — |
| 1922 | 330 | #365 | — | — |
| 1921 | 328 | #371 | — | — |
| 1920 | 268 | #406 | — | — |
| 1919 | 275 | #390 | — | — |
| 1918 | 276 | #393 | — | — |
| 1917 | 249 | #401 | — | — |
| 1916 | 221 | #421 | — | — |
| 1915 | 185 | #453 | — | — |
| 1914 | 149 | #449 | — | — |
| 1913 | 113 | #475 | — | — |
| 1912 | 97 | #487 | — | — |
| 1911 | 72 | #488 | — | — |
| 1910 | 66 | #500 | — | — |
| 1909 | 62 | #477 | — | — |
| 1908 | 52 | #503 | — | — |
| 1907 | 41 | #573 | — | — |
| 1906 | 49 | #493 | — | — |
| 1905 | 46 | #501 | — | — |
| 1904 | 53 | #448 | — | — |
| 1903 | 50 | #453 | — | — |
| 1902 | 41 | #495 | — | — |
| 1901 | 32 | #541 | — | — |
| 1900 | 45 | #506 | — | — |
| 1899 | 51 | #409 | — | — |
| 1898 | 45 | #461 | — | — |
| 1897 | 51 | #410 | — | — |
| 1896 | 43 | #443 | — | — |
| 1895 | 38 | #473 | — | — |
| 1894 | 24 | #599 | — | — |
| 1893 | 32 | #479 | — | — |
| 1892 | 26 | #544 | — | — |
| 1891 | 19 | #616 | — | — |
| 1890 | 24 | #542 | — | — |
| 1889 | 20 | #579 | — | — |
| 1888 | 25 | #505 | — | — |
| 1887 | 16 | #570 | — | — |
| 1886 | 15 | #584 | — | — |
| 1885 | 22 | #451 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #758 | — | — |
| 1883 | 10 | #629 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #847 | — | — |
| 1881 | 10 | #555 | — | — |
| 1880 | 7 | #702 | — | — |
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).