Glen
Glen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 61 births. Its best rank was 112th, in 1931.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 610.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19572,925 births
- Best rank
- #112in 1931
- Since 1880
- 126,977people given the name
The story in the numbers
125,629 boys have been named Glen in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 2,925 births — 0.14% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 61 births in 2024, against 2,925 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 20%. It has spent 124 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,348 girls have also been given it, 1.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Glen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 437 | |
| 1890s | 959 | |
| 1900s | 1,337 | |
| 1910s | 8,544 | |
| 1920s | 14,965 | |
| 1930s | 14,486 | |
| 1940s | 16,552 | |
| 1950s | 25,396 | |
| 1960s | 21,877 | |
| 1970s | 9,834 | |
| 1980s | 5,330 | |
| 1990s | 3,113 | |
| 2000s | 1,525 | |
| 2010s | 945 | |
| 2020s | 329 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Glen was the 129th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Glen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Glennpeak 1962
- Paulpeak 1957
- Lorenpeak 1955
- Russellpeak 1960
- Carltonpeak 1957
- Robertpeak 1947
- Lorinpeak 1965
- Lawrencepeak 1952
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.