girls:
266.6k births since 1880
#150 (97th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1895
#3570 (22nd percentile)
overall:
267.6k births since 1880
#293 (96th percentile)
The name Gladys is the #293 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 267,643 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #150 (97.4% percentile) for all time with 266,620 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,570 (22.1% percentile) for all time with 1,023 births since 1895.
Gladys has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1895 for boys).
The name Gladys has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gladys reached its peak popularity in 1901, achieving the 96.9% percentile (ranked #11) with 10,526 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 10,526 births per million (ranked 96.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Gladys ranks #891 for girls (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Gladys reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #428) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 119 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gladys".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gladys. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.6% confident that Gladys is pronounced as GLA-dihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GLA-dees, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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