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Glover

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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
Babies named Glover, by year of birthboys
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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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Glover
1880s21
1890s53
1900s46
1910s203
1920s241
1930s184
1940s141
1950s115
1960s58
1970s22
1980s18
1990s7
2010s5

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.

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.