girls:
5 births since 1946
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
155 births since 1927
#4431 (3rd percentile)
overall:
160 births since 1927
#7579 (2nd percentile)
The name Glendel is the #7,579 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 160 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,431 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 155 births since 1927. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1946.
Glendel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (1927 for boys and 1946 for girls). Birth data for Glendel is available in 19 out of the 45 years between 1927 and 1971 (19 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Glendel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Glendel reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #514) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1971.
For girls, Glendel reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #659) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1946.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Glendel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Glendel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Glendel is pronounced as GLEHN-duhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GLEHN-dehl, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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