girls:
538 births since 1901
#5178 (9th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1917
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
543 births since 1901
#7196 (7th percentile)
The name Glady is the #7,196 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 543 recorded births since 1901. This represents the 7.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,178 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 538 births since 1901. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1917.
Glady first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1901 (1901 for girls and 1917 for boys). Birth data for Glady is available in 64 out of the 81 years between 1901 and 1981 (64 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Glady has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Glady reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #564) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 29 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
For boys, Glady reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #517) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1917.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Glady".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Glady. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.9% confident that Glady is pronounced as GLA-dee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GLAY-dee, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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