Glennie
Glennie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 600th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191655 births
- Best rank
- #600in 1881
- Since 1881
- 2,225people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,931 girls have been named Glennie in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 55 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 55 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 294 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Glennie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 83 | |
| 1890s | 156 | |
| 1900s | 183 | |
| 1910s | 363 | |
| 1920s | 400 | |
| 1930s | 292 | |
| 1940s | 228 | |
| 1950s | 159 | |
| 1960s | 59 | |
| 1970s | 8 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Glennie was the 919th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Glennie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Idellapeak 1921
- Jettiepeak 1918
- Verniepeak 1916
- Loviepeak 1919
- Elmirapeak 1921
- Inapeak 1921
- Elvinapeak 1920
- Althapeak 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.