girls:
2.1k births since 1912
#3781 (34th percentile)
boys:
721 births since 1913
#3866 (16th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1912
#5122 (34th percentile)
The name Glennis is the #5,122 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,777 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 33.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,781 (33.8% percentile) for all time with 2,056 births since 1912. For boys, it ranks #3,866 (15.6% percentile) for all time with 721 births since 1913.
Glennis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Glennis is available in 80 out of the 86 years between 1912 and 1997 (80 years for girls and 60 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 Glennis has been given predominantly to girls, with 74.0% of all recorded births being female. In 1997, 100.0% of babies named Glennis were girls.
For girls, Glennis reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 9.5% percentile (ranked #526) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 53 births per million (ranked 9.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
For boys, Glennis reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #566) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 19 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Glennis".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Glennis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.1% confident that Glennis is pronounced as GLEH-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GLEH-nees, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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