girls:
109.2k births since 1900
#345 (94th percentile)
boys:
295 births since 1935
#4291 (6th percentile)
overall:
109.5k births since 1900
#634 (92nd percentile)
The name Glenda is the #634 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 109,474 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 91.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #345 (94.0% percentile) for all time with 109,179 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,291 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 295 births since 1935.
Glenda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1935 for boys). Birth data for Glenda is available in 121 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (121 years for girls and 31 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 Glenda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Glenda reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 87.5% percentile (ranked #86) with 2,264 births per million. The name was most common in 1944, with 2,464 births per million (ranked 87.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1951, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Glenda ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Glenda reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #555) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1966.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Glenda".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Glenda is pronounced as GLEHN-duh, which has 2 syllables.
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