Glory
Glory is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 89 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 890.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2016112 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1915
- 4,883people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,785 girls have been named Glory in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 112 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 2010s alone account for 19%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 98 boys have also been given it, 2.0% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Glory | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 42 | |
| 1920s | 167 | |
| 1930s | 222 | |
| 1940s | 390 | |
| 1950s | 538 | |
| 1960s | 465 | |
| 1970s | 327 | |
| 1980s | 258 | |
| 1990s | 374 | |
| 2000s | 606 | |
| 2010s | 926 | |
| 2020s | 470 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Glory was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Glory
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gwendolynnpeak 2023
- Evangelinapeak 2012
- Darlynpeak 2021
- Laelpeak 2015
- Wynnepeak 2019
- Neilapeak 2009
- Sonapeak 2024
- Maylenepeak 2012
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.