Meaning not yet researched.
Glory: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 107 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,025 in 1945.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,025 in 1945; #1,859 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Glory in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,859 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1945, at #1,025.
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Glory: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 107 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,025 in 1945 · most girls in one year: 112 (2019).
In 2025, 107 US girls were named Glory, making it the 1,859th most common girls’ name of the year, up 282 places from #2,141 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 89 girls named Glory in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,025, reached in 1945. The most girls given the name in a single year was 112, in 2019. For comparison, it was #2,266 in 2015 and #1,416 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Glory in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 5,000 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 983 babies named Glory.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,019 US girls were named Glory; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 112. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,021 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Glory ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #926 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gloria (417,018 babies since 1880) and Honor (4,604 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Glory in the open dataset we use.
Glory is listed as a nickname for Gloria.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #926 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #961 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,118 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,838 | #1,971 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,984 | #2,196 |
| California | 9 | #2,161 | #2,820 |
| New York | 5 | #2,208 | #1,837 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,859 | 9 | #8,479 |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,141 | 9 | #8,562 |
| 2023 | 87 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,980 | 9 | #8,542 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,031 | 8 | #9,121 |
| 2020 | 101 | #1,899 | 15 | #5,801 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,822 | 11 | #7,326 |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,881 | 7 | #10,030 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,857 | 11 | #7,258 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,844 | 10 | #7,790 |
| 2015 | 83 | #2,266 | 10 | #7,677 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,445 | 8 | #9,077 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,442 | — | — |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,918 | — | — |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,176 | — | — |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,358 | — | — |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,281 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,065 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,898 | — | — |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,027 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,773 | — | — |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,451 | — | — |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,663 | — | — |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,288 | — | — |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1959 | 60 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1958 | 57 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1957 | 61 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1952 | 70 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1947 | 47 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 1945 | 57 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,491 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,551 | — | — |
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).