Glennis
Glennis was last recorded in 1997, when 6 babies were given it; 2,777 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Glennis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 61 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Glennis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Glennis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,626, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
80 babies in 1947, the peak
Glennis peaked in 1947, when 80 babies were given it (62 girls, #1,144 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | #12,626 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,268 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,656 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,130 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,922 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,569 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,542 | 5 | #7,102 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,708 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,986 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,826 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 8 | #7,707 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,912 | 6 | #5,782 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,536 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,903 | 5 | #6,140 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,022 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,218 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,262 | 9 | #3,756 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,439 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,271 | 5 | #5,370 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,149 | 7 | #4,149 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,635 | 8 | #3,763 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,925 | 5 | #4,996 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,946 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,221 | 9 | #2,977 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,914 | 10 | #2,665 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,186 | 8 | #3,080 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,090 | 6 | #3,674 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,712 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,568 | 12 | #2,459 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,964 | 14 | #2,218 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,010 | 8 | #3,198 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,464 | 14 | #2,253 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,166 | 13 | #2,336 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,281 | 15 | #2,124 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,593 | 9 | #2,894 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,119 | 26 | #1,549 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,602 | 9 | #2,847 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,631 | 15 | #2,072 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,534 | 11 | #2,442 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,953 | 13 | #2,193 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,536 | 23 | #1,570 |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,437 | 18 | #1,771 |
| 1949 | 54 | #1,238 | 25 | #1,474 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,554 | 25 | #1,471 |
| 1947 | 62 | #1,144 | 18 | #1,812 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,425 | 13 | #2,072 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,554 | 19 | #1,551 |
| 1944 | 40 | #1,262 | 16 | #1,767 |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,309 | 15 | #1,941 |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,197 | 13 | #2,080 |
| 1941 | 33 | #1,346 | 14 | #1,941 |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,123 | 15 | #1,835 |
| 1939 | 60 | #908 | 14 | #1,910 |
| 1938 | 51 | #996 | 21 | #1,497 |
| 1937 | 39 | #1,149 | 13 | #2,031 |
| 1936 | 55 | #923 | 13 | #1,994 |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,087 | 13 | #2,073 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,384 | 13 | #2,062 |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,321 | 11 | #2,274 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,403 | 20 | #1,612 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,382 | 17 | #1,795 |
| 1930 | 40 | #1,185 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 1929 | 41 | #1,164 | 13 | #2,248 |
| 1928 | 45 | #1,140 | 12 | #2,442 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,638 | 9 | #2,998 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,314 | 12 | #2,475 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,479 | 13 | #2,354 |
| 1924 | 42 | #1,233 | 7 | #3,635 |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,312 | 8 | #3,277 |
| 1922 | 40 | #1,238 | 8 | #3,361 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,450 | 7 | #3,658 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,565 | 5 | #4,559 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,381 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,660 | 5 | #4,419 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,388 | 10 | #2,623 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,647 | 8 | #3,022 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,179 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,951 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,421 | 8 | #2,161 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,656 | 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 Glennis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,777 Americans recorded as Glennis, 74% are girls and 26% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Glennis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Glennis, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 46% of the 2,777 Americans ever recorded as Glennis. The median Glennis alive today is 71 years old; half are between 61 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 1,647 people named Glennis (1,302 women and girls, 345 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,539 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 267 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 672 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 239 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 76 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Glennis born?
The states with the most babies named Glennis are Kentucky, Georgia and Maine, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Maine are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 102 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 62 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Maine | 38 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Kansas | 33 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Nebraska | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Glennis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Glennis is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1912 it was given 1.6 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 Glennis 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,021 babies since 1880, Glennis is the most given (69% 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 Glennis
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 Glennis and names like it
- Compare Glennis and GlenysBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sGlennis peaked in 1947.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Glennis since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Glennis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Glennis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.