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Glinda

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Glinda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 734th, in 1951.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1951142 births
Best rank
#734in 1951
Since 1931
2,547people given the name
Babies named Glinda, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

2,547 girls have been named Glinda in the United States since 1931, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 142 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 142 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1950s alone account for 43%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Glinda
1930s75
1940s699
1950s1,092
1960s460
1970s143
1980s58
1990s15
2000s5

In 1951, its biggest year

Glinda was the 734th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1951 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Barbara. See all of 1951.

Names that rose and fell with Glinda

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.