Glennie
Glennie was last recorded in 1973, when 5 babies were given it; 2,225 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Glennie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Glennie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,148, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1916, the peak
Glennie peaked in 1916, when 63 babies were given it (55 girls, #919 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,369 | |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,148 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,995 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #3,868 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,865 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,165 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,511 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,868 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,998 | 5 | #4,286 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,572 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 9 | #4,421 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,607 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,777 | 7 | #3,363 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,228 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,138 | 5 | #4,070 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,544 | 12 | #2,358 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,547 | 10 | #2,598 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,090 | 8 | #2,950 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,517 | 5 | #3,910 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,147 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,551 | 5 | #3,900 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,971 | 7 | #3,121 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,962 | 10 | #2,557 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,930 | 5 | #3,710 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,811 | 8 | #2,644 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,326 | 9 | #2,526 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,807 | 10 | #2,460 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,607 | 6 | #3,347 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,668 | 5 | #3,707 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,387 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,699 | 5 | #3,686 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,169 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,698 | 7 | #3,019 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,333 | 9 | #2,515 |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,188 | 6 | #3,407 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,383 | 8 | #2,827 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,338 | 8 | #2,829 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,708 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,247 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,332 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,430 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,442 | 8 | #3,193 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,204 | 13 | #2,340 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,171 | 8 | #3,234 |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,236 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,417 | 9 | #3,110 |
| 1923 | 45 | #1,149 | 10 | #2,832 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,195 | 9 | #3,113 |
| 1921 | 51 | #1,064 | 7 | #3,657 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,142 | 6 | #4,000 |
| 1919 | 41 | #1,165 | 11 | #2,571 |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,170 | 8 | #3,215 |
| 1917 | 34 | #1,247 | 6 | #3,717 |
| 1916 | 55 | #919 | 8 | #3,021 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,178 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,045 | 5 | #3,455 |
| 1913 | 37 | #874 | 5 | #3,003 |
| 1912 | 34 | #860 | under 5 | |
| 1911 | 26 | #844 | 5 | #1,844 |
| 1910 | 28 | #816 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 23 | #855 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 26 | #760 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 33 | #658 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,121 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 17 | #907 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 14 | #973 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 17 | #845 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,045 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 15 | #865 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,026 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 18 | #770 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 21 | #729 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 19 | #725 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 21 | #692 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 15 | #831 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 14 | #823 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 13 | #840 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 10 | #980 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 17 | #649 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,039 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 15 | #669 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 14 | #702 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 10 | #757 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 10 | #749 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 9 | #759 | under 5 | |
| 1883 | 7 | #780 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 9 | #650 | under 5 | |
| 1881 | 9 | #600 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Glennie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,225 Americans recorded as Glennie, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Glennie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Glennie, and how old are they?
An estimated 461 Americans named Glennie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 70 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Glennie (487 women and girls, 101 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 624 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
Where are babies named Glennie born?
The states with the most babies named Glennie are North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 300 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| Alabama | 152 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Mississippi | 29 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Glennie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Glennie is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 4.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Glennie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 27,854 babies since 1880, Glennie is the second most given (8.0% 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 Glennie
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 Glennie and names like it
- Compare Glennie and GlennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGlennie peaked in 1916.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Glennie since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Glennie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Glennie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.