Glory — #2132 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Glory

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,785 babies named Glory between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Glory currently holds the #2132 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 112 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Glory performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 926 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Glory shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 349 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Glory in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Glory 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 4,785 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.