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Glendora

Girls’ name Recorded 1883-1984

Glendora was last recorded in 1984, when 6 babies were given it; 2,350 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

No sourced meaning is on record for Glendora: Wiktionary has no entry for it as a given name.

Babies named Glendora each year, first recorded in 1883
Glendora, 1880-2025; highest in 1956.255075100125188019001920194019601980200020251956 peak: 110
Glendora, 1880-2025; highest in 1956.255075100125188019001920194019601980200020251956 peak: 110
Glendora, 1880-2025; highest in 1956.25507510012518801905193019551980200520251956 peak: 110
Glendora, 1880-2025; highest in 1956.25507510012518801930198020251956 peak: 110

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Births of Glendora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

How popular is Glendora?

Unranked in 2025

Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,513, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.

110 babies in 1956, the peak

Glendora peaked in 1956, when 110 girls were given it, #962 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.

Glendora by year
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
19846#9,5133.6
19835#10,8243.0
19776#8,8073.9
19756#8,3344.1
19745#9,2183.4
19736#7,7514.1
197213#4,3728.5
19719#5,6855.4
197010#5,1715.7
196912#4,2687.1
Every recorded year (85)
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
196811#4,2986.7
196715#3,3859.1
196630#2,15917.7
196529#2,21916.4
196432#2,12216.9
196323#2,56611.9
196233#2,04116.8
196129#2,21014.4
196039#1,81819.3
195948#1,56923.7
195845#1,59222.4
195770#1,25634.2
1956110#96254.8
195536#1,74818.4
195434#1,78017.5
195327#1,98214.4
195237#1,59020.0
195124#2,03013.3
195025#1,92814.6
194929#1,77617.0
194822#2,09113.0
194735#1,61319.7
194635#1,48722.3
194530#1,49523.0
194431#1,46623.4
194322#1,85515.8
194235#1,37325.9
194120#1,83716.6
194027#1,49123.6
193918#1,91016.4
193820#1,77318.1
193729#1,37027.3
193627#1,42626.0
193530#1,33828.6
193454#94351.7
193345#1,04144.6
193245#1,05942.2
193141#1,11238.5
193038#1,22133.7
192943#1,12638.5
192846#1,12239.9
192792#75177.2
192644#1,15437.1
192568#90055.9
192455#1,05044.0
192351#1,06842.3
192247#1,12139.1
192158#97647.0
192044#1,14136.7
191937#1,25432.7
191850#1,02243.2
191729#1,38726.8
191643#1,07341.2
191540#1,06240.7
191417#1,62722.3
191317#1,42927.2
191215#1,44726.9
191110#1,58323.9
191017#1,08642.9
190912#1,24634.6
190811#1,29832.9
19068#1,47527.1
190511#1,20437.7
190411#1,12639.9
19036#1,67722.9
19015#1,78320.9
18998#1,21834.3
18975#1,64021.3
18965#1,67521.0
18957#1,34830.0
18947#1,27731.4
18905#1,40826.3
18895#1,35928.0
18887#1,07639.2
18836#85753.4

Download Glendora’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Glendora a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Glendora has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Glendora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Glendora, and how old are they?

An estimated 885 Americans named Glendora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.

The 2020 Census counted 1,031 people named Glendora (1,029 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,083 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.

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).

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Glendora

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1880-2025
Delphine10,481
Ernestine44,191
Bernadine21,933
Margery15,791
Sybil20,365
Loraine17,624

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 Glendora and names like it

  1. Compare Glendora and DelphineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 1950sGlendora peaked in 1956.
  3. Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Glendora since 1910.
  4. The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Glendora.
  5. The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Glendora alive today were born 1946-1964.
  6. Names starting with GMost given first.

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