Fewer than five US girls were named Glynis in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #596, reached in 1963. That year also had the most girls given the name: 278. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #3,516 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Glynis in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 5 babies. In all, 2,024 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,141 babies named Glynis.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Glynis.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Glennis (2,777 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Glynes and Glyniss are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Irish and Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.