Glennis
Glennis is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 908th, in 1939.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194762 births
- Best rank
- #908in 1939
- Since 1912
- 2,777people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,056 girls have been named Glennis in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 62 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 62 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1940s alone account for 20%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Glennis is used for both sexes: 26% of its bearers are boys (721), most of them born around 1956.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1947, its biggest year
Glennis was outside the top 1,000 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 Glennis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marvispeak 1924
- Eilenepeak 1946
- Nadenepeak 1930
- Raymapeak 1947
- Verdellpeak 1932
- Vernellpeak 1924
- Phylispeak 1949
- Arlenepeak 1934
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.