girls:
1.3k births since 1884
#4378 (23rd percentile)
boys:
125.6k births since 1880
#262 (94th percentile)
overall:
126.9k births since 1880
#585 (92nd percentile)
The name Glen is the #585 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 126,912 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #262 (94.3% percentile) for all time with 125,564 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,378 (23.4% percentile) for all time with 1,348 births since 1884.
Glen has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1884 for girls).
The name Glen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Glen reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 80.8% percentile (ranked #127) with 1,336 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 1,461 births per million (ranked 79.2% percentile). Despite a low point around 1968, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Glen ranks #860 for boys (5.6% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 2.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Glen reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #572) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 36 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Glen".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Glen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Glen is pronounced as glehn, which has 1 syllables.
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