girls:
64 births since 1918
#5652 (1st percentile)
boys:
4.7k births since 1904
#1766 (61st percentile)
overall:
4.7k births since 1904
#3970 (49th percentile)
The name Glendon is the #3,970 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,735 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 48.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,766 (61.5% percentile) for all time with 4,671 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #5,652 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 1918.
Glendon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Glendon is available in 118 out of the 120 years between 1904 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 9 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 Glendon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Glendon reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 17.1% percentile (ranked #547) with 73 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 84 births per million (ranked 15.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Glendon ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 8.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Glendon reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #584) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% 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 "Glendon".
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Our model is 85.0% confident that Glendon is pronounced as GLEHN-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GLEHN-dohn, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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