Glena
Glena was last recorded in 1992, when 5 babies were given it; 1,078 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Glena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Glena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,025, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1950, the peak
Glena peaked in 1950, when 31 girls were given it, #1,690 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #14,025 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,417 | 3.6 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,420 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,148 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,147 | 5.3 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,114 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,617 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,496 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,130 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,621 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 19 | #2,945 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,385 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,487 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,997 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,596 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,419 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,790 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,435 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,278 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,497 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,729 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,733 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,854 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,209 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,690 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,548 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,531 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,226 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,305 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,182 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,548 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,105 | 12.9 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,931 | 14.8 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,127 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,990 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,068 | 14.6 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,900 | 16.3 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,749 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,763 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,739 | 19.1 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,426 | 25.9 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,674 | 20.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,707 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,608 | 21.6 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,630 | 21.3 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,638 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,927 | 17.3 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,289 | 13.4 |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,029 | 16.0 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,142 | 14.8 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,731 | 20.0 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,307 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,220 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,010 | 16.2 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,033 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,019 | 15.9 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,619 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,802 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,120 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,301 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,505 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,709 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,230 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,629 | 12.0 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,245 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,189 | 15.7 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,782 | 20.9 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,803 | 19.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Glena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Glena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Glena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Glena, and how old are they?
An estimated 458 Americans named Glena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 684 people named Glena (672 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 558 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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).
How common is the spelling Glena?
Glena is a less common spelling of Glenna: SSA has recorded 1,078 Glena and 25,629 Glenna since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 27,021 babies since 1880, Glena is the second most given (4.0% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Glena
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 Glena and names like it
- Compare Glena and GlennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGlena peaked in 1950.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Glena since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Glena.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Glena alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.