Glenn
Glenn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 138 births. Its best rank was 55th, in 1962.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1380.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19627,358 births
- Best rank
- #55in 1962
- Since 1880
- 250,653people given the name
The story in the numbers
248,517 boys have been named Glenn in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 7,358 births — 0.36% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 138 births in 2024, against 7,358 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1950s alone account for 24%. It has spent 129 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 63 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,136 girls have also been given it, 0.85% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Glenn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 731 | |
| 1890s | 1,501 | |
| 1900s | 2,122 | |
| 1910s | 14,304 | |
| 1920s | 25,157 | |
| 1930s | 24,222 | |
| 1940s | 35,716 | |
| 1950s | 58,712 | |
| 1960s | 48,096 | |
| 1970s | 16,891 | |
| 1980s | 10,189 | |
| 1990s | 5,908 | |
| 2000s | 2,730 | |
| 2010s | 1,614 | |
| 2020s | 624 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Glenn was the 55th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Glenn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Glenpeak 1957
- Paulpeak 1957
- Rexpeak 1951
- Valpeak 1952
- Jeromepeak 1954
- Tedpeak 1958
- Robertpeak 1947
- Russellpeak 1960
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.