Glenna — girls' name

What the Data Says About Glenna

The Social Security Administration has registered 25,617 babies named Glenna between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Glenna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1951, when 645 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Glenna performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 5,177 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Glenna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 2,473 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by West Virginia and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Glenna in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Glenna 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 25,617 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.