Girls' name · since 1925
Glorious
Glorious has 320 recorded births since 1925 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1948 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #15,381 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 320
- born since 1925
- 1940s
- peak decade
Glorious sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 320 recorded since 1925.
Glorious has 320 recorded births among girls since 1925, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1925 to 2023.
- #15,381 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 320 born since 1925
- 1940s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Glorious ranks #15,381 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 320 born since 1925, peaking in the 1940s.
- #15,381 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 320
- born since 1925
- 1940s
- peak decade
Glorious's 320 recorded births place it above 78.71% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Glorious's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Glorious's full recorded timeline at 1949, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1925, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1948 peak of 15 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Glorious popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1925–2023
- Peak year (1948)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 99 years of records
Glorious by decade
1940s is the heaviest window (93 births, 29% of the file).
1940s was Glorious's strongest decade.
93 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 29% of all-time use.
Glorious births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s 31
1920s
31 births
- 1930s
1930s
51 births
- 1940s
1940s
93 births
- 1950s
1950s
58 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s 17
2000s
17 births
- 2010s
2010s
46 births
- 2020s 14
2020s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 93 births (29% of all-time use).
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- Glorious's decade-level peak was the 1940s (93 total births); usage has since declined to 14 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Glorious: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1948)
Similar record span (~98 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1925–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Glorious draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.