Gladies — girls' name

What the Data Says About Gladies

The Social Security Administration has registered 408 babies named Gladies between 1908 and 1952, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gladies currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1952. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 27 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gladies performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 178 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Gladies shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Gladies in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gladies in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 408 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.