Glinda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Glinda

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,547 babies named Glinda between 1931 and 2008, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Glinda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1951, when 142 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Glinda performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 1,092 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Glinda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 261 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Glinda in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Glinda 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 2,547 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.