Gloria
Gloria is ranked 654th among girls in 2024 (447 births). Its best rank was 20th, in 1925–1926.
- Rank in 2024
- #654up 17 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4470.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 194712,626 births
- Best rank
- #20first in 1925
- Since 1881
- 416,573people given the name
The story in the numbers
414,836 girls have been named Gloria in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 12,626 births — 0.71% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 447 births in 2024, against 12,626 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1940s alone account for 25%. It has spent 128 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 42 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,737 boys have also been given it, 0.42% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Gloria | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 71 | |
| 1900s | 435 | |
| 1910s | 2,818 | |
| 1920s | 62,859 | |
| 1930s | 68,588 | |
| 1940s | 105,054 | |
| 1950s | 86,706 | |
| 1960s | 38,589 | |
| 1970s | 14,220 | |
| 1980s | 10,432 | |
| 1990s | 9,790 | |
| 2000s | 7,264 | |
| 2010s | 5,610 | |
| 2020s | 2,393 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Gloria was the 27th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Gloria
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mariloupeak 1948
- Elainepeak 1947
- Marjeanpeak 1951
- Beverleepeak 1930
- Donnispeak 1948
- Rosemarypeak 1947
- Maxcinepeak 1940
- Georgenepeak 1947
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.