Glover
Glover is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 742nd, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191530 births
- Best rank
- #742in 1899
- Since 1885
- 1,114people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,114 boys have been named Glover in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 30 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 30 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Glover | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 21 | |
| 1890s | 53 | |
| 1900s | 46 | |
| 1910s | 203 | |
| 1920s | 241 | |
| 1930s | 184 | |
| 1940s | 141 | |
| 1950s | 115 | |
| 1960s | 58 | |
| 1970s | 22 | |
| 1980s | 18 | |
| 1990s | 7 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Glover was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Glover
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ewingpeak 1925
- Lemonpeak 1927
- Earlypeak 1927
- Vernepeak 1919
- Elmorepeak 1918
- Ludwigpeak 1916
- Earlpeak 1921
- Evanspeak 2024
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.