Glenwood — boys' name

What the Data Says About Glenwood

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,247 babies named Glenwood between 1902 and 2001, spanning 100 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Glenwood currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 66 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Glenwood performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 459 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Glenwood shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 276 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Virginia and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Glenwood in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Glenwood 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 2,247 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.