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Glyn

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Glyn is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
193439 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1912
1,475people given the name
Babies named Glyn, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,383 boys have been named Glyn in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1934, with 39 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 39 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1930s alone account for 19%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 92 girls have also been given it, 6.2% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Glyn
1910s107
1920s234
1930s264
1940s255
1950s223
1960s159
1970s79
1980s47
1990s10
2000s5

In 1934, its biggest year

Glyn was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1934 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1934.

Names that rose and fell with Glyn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.