Gladis — #9551 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Gladis

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,060 babies named Gladis between 1898 and 2024, spanning 127 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gladis currently holds the #9551 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 69 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gladis performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 567 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Gladis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 606 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Gladis in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gladis 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 3,060 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.