Glenis — unisex name
405 babies named Glenis in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1949. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Glenis was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Glenis in 1949 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Glenis
The Social Security Administration has registered 405 babies named Glenis between 1915 and 2020, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Glenis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Glenis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 1930.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Glenis performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Glenis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Glenis 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 405 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.
Glenis at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Glenis popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1915
- Peak year (1949)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 106 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
405 total births across 106 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1949 with 13 births in a single year.
Glenis popularity over time — boys
27 total births recorded since 1930 (Glenis as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Glenis accounts for 6% of total recorded use across both genders.
Glenis by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- 86 births that decade — 21% of Glenis's all-time total
Glenis decade highlights
- Peak decade 86 births
- Runner-up 76 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1930s was Glenis's strongest decade
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.