girls:
4.7k births since 1915
#2479 (57th percentile)
boys:
89 births since 2013
#4497 (2nd percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1915
#3946 (49th percentile)
The name Glory is the #3,946 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,781 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 49.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,479 (56.6% percentile) for all time with 4,692 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #4,497 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 89 births since 2013.
Glory first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for girls and 2013 for boys).
The name Glory has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Glory reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 11.2% percentile (ranked #839) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 60 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Glory ranks #867 for girls (8.5% percentile) with 49 births per million, which is 80.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Glory reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #891) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Glory".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Glory is pronounced as GLAW-ree, which has 2 syllables.
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