Glendale — boys' name

What the Data Says About Glendale

The Social Security Administration has registered 544 babies named Glendale between 1915 and 2011, spanning 97 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Glendale currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1951, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Glendale is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 81 additional births since 1945.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Glendale performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Glendale shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oklahoma, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Glendale in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Glendale 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 544 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.