girls:
781 births since 1893
#4935 (14th percentile)
boys:
20 births since 1913
#4566 (0th percentile)
overall:
801 births since 1893
#6938 (10th percentile)
The name Glee is the #6,938 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 801 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 10.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,935 (13.6% percentile) for all time with 781 births since 1893. For boys, it ranks #4,566 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 1913.
Glee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Glee is available in 65 out of the 79 years between 1893 and 1971 (65 years for girls and 4 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 Glee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Glee reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #574) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1971.
For boys, Glee reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #408) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Glee".
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