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Glenwood

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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
Babies named Glenwood, by year of birthboys
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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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Glenwood
1900s22
1910s302
1920s459
1930s388
1940s355
1950s323
1960s193
1970s110
1980s68
1990s22
2000s5

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.

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.