Gladyce
Gladyce was last recorded in 1944, when 6 babies were given it; 1,006 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gladyce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gladyce?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,236, in 1944; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1915, the peak
Gladyce peaked in 1915, when 56 girls were given it, #880 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 6 | #4,236 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,302 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,656 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,816 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,576 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,287 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,462 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,476 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,481 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,094 | 14.9 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 18 | #1,904 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,978 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,050 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,729 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,517 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,692 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,492 | 25.3 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,548 | 23.8 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,545 | 24.0 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,407 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,133 | 38.3 |
| 1921 | 52 | #1,048 | 42.2 |
| 1920 | 52 | #1,035 | 43.4 |
| 1919 | 49 | #1,031 | 43.4 |
| 1918 | 55 | #971 | 47.5 |
| 1917 | 42 | #1,099 | 38.8 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,072 | 41.2 |
| 1915 | 56 | #880 | 56.9 |
| 1914 | 41 | #925 | 53.8 |
| 1913 | 28 | #1,031 | 44.8 |
| 1912 | 36 | #839 | 64.5 |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,044 | 43.0 |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,010 | 47.9 |
| 1909 | 26 | #803 | 74.9 |
| 1908 | 19 | #925 | 56.8 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,167 | 37.7 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,067 | 44.0 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,202 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,404 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,372 | 30.5 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,780 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,358 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,698 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,585 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,316 | 29.9 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,695 | 21.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gladyce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gladyce has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gladyce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gladyce, and how old are they?
An estimated 38 Americans named Gladyce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 121 people named Gladyce (121 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 92 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gladyce born?
The states with the most babies named Gladyce are Minnesota, Nebraska and North Dakota, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Nebraska and North Dakota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 143 | not ranked | 7.4× |
| Nebraska | 31 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| North Dakota | 20 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Wisconsin | 15 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 10 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Montana | 5 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Gladyce is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gladyce is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 7.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gladyce with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gladyce
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gladyce and names like it
- Compare Gladyce and MozelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGladyce peaked in 1915.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gladyce since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Gladyce.
- Names starting with GMost given first.