Glendon
Glendon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. Its best rank was 624th, in 1933.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1975118 births
- Best rank
- #624in 1933
- Since 1904
- 4,683people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,683 boys have been named Glendon in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 118 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 39 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Glendon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 24 | |
| 1910s | 373 | |
| 1920s | 824 | |
| 1930s | 685 | |
| 1940s | 583 | |
| 1950s | 474 | |
| 1960s | 356 | |
| 1970s | 454 | |
| 1980s | 277 | |
| 1990s | 234 | |
| 2000s | 163 | |
| 2010s | 176 | |
| 2020s | 60 |
In 1975, its biggest year
Glendon was the 764th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1975 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, James and David. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Glendon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Placidopeak 1923
- Burnellpeak 1920
- Seferinopeak 1952
- Ysidropeak 1922
- Harrellpeak 1947
- Rodmanpeak 1928
- Merlinpeak 1927
- Denzilpeak 1937
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.