Glenwood
Glenwood is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 829th, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192066 births
- Best rank
- #829in 1920
- Since 1902
- 2,247people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,247 boys have been named Glenwood in the United States since 1902, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 66 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 66 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Glenwood | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 22 | |
| 1910s | 302 | |
| 1920s | 459 | |
| 1930s | 388 | |
| 1940s | 355 | |
| 1950s | 323 | |
| 1960s | 193 | |
| 1970s | 110 | |
| 1980s | 68 | |
| 1990s | 22 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Glenwood was the 829th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Glenwood
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Burnellpeak 1920
- Wilburtpeak 1920
- Weltonpeak 1924
- Melfordpeak 1921
- Thermanpeak 1919
- Beaufordpeak 1934
- Sherwoodpeak 1938
- Gasperpeak 1917
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.