Glenda
Glenda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. Its best rank was 79th, in 1944.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 240.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19504,215 births
- Best rank
- #79in 1944
- Since 1900
- 109,205people given the name
The story in the numbers
109,205 girls have been named Glenda in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1950, with 4,215 births — 0.25% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 24 births in 2024, against 4,215 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 32%. It has spent 79 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Glenda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 65 | |
| 1910s | 553 | |
| 1920s | 1,457 | |
| 1930s | 10,590 | |
| 1940s | 33,348 | |
| 1950s | 35,228 | |
| 1960s | 17,591 | |
| 1970s | 5,324 | |
| 1980s | 2,447 | |
| 1990s | 1,374 | |
| 2000s | 787 | |
| 2010s | 325 | |
| 2020s | 116 |
In 1950, its biggest year
Glenda was the 87th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1950 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Susan. See all of 1950.
Names that rose and fell with Glenda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janicepeak 1951
- Sherrillpeak 1947
- Kayepeak 1947
- Georgeannpeak 1947
- Rozannepeak 1943
- Sharolpeak 1949
- Georgiannepeak 1943
- Dianpeak 1946
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.