Glory
Glory was given to 107 girls in 2025, #1,859 among girls’ names; 5,000 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,230 Americans named Glory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 10 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Glory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Glory mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Glory is “a female given name from English.”
From glory as a variant of the more common Gloria.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Glory?
#1,859 among girls’ names, 2025
Glory rose from #2,266 in 2015 to #1,859 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 46.5 to 66.6 per million.
123 babies in 2019, the peak
Glory peaked in 2019, when 123 babies were given it (112 girls, #1,822 among girls’ names). The 116 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 94% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,859 | 66.6 |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,141 | 54.9 |
| 2023 | 87 | #2,183 | 54.2 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,980 | 60.4 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,031 | 57.9 |
| 2020 | 101 | #1,899 | 62.5 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,822 | 66.7 |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,881 | 62.9 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,857 | 63.7 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,844 | 63.2 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 83 | #2,266 | 46.5 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,058 | 53.2 |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,445 | 42.2 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,167 | 49.4 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,672 | 37.5 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,369 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,136 | 29.4 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,865 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,802 | 33.8 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,676 | 35.2 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,559 | 36.3 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,657 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,560 | 34.5 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,611 | 32.8 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,711 | 30.5 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,787 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,707 | 28.8 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,439 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,313 | 33.3 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,911 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,913 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,313 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,171 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,353 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,964 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,305 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,275 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,060 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,895 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,582 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,026 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,772 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,526 | 21.5 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,450 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,277 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,893 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,688 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,763 | 19.6 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,662 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,347 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,530 | 21.3 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,147 | 25.9 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,469 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,288 | 21.7 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,191 | 22.2 |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,056 | 22.9 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,146 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,986 | 22.6 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,580 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,931 | 21.3 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,551 | 29.5 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,898 | 20.6 |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,495 | 29.1 |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,366 | 33.6 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,468 | 28.7 |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,387 | 31.2 |
| 1959 | 60 | #1,388 | 29.7 |
| 1958 | 57 | #1,411 | 28.3 |
| 1957 | 61 | #1,361 | 29.8 |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,458 | 26.4 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,483 | 24.0 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,379 | 27.3 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,350 | 27.6 |
| 1952 | 70 | #1,130 | 37.7 |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,442 | 23.9 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,415 | 24.5 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,342 | 27.5 |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,317 | 28.9 |
| 1947 | 47 | #1,340 | 26.5 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,426 | 24.2 |
| 1945 | 57 | #1,025 | 43.6 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,555 | 21.1 |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,377 | 25.8 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,485 | 23.0 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,578 | 20.7 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,322 | 28.0 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,490 | 23.7 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,828 | 17.2 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,699 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,658 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,575 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,385 | 26.8 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,627 | 21.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,709 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,566 | 22.5 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,051 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,783 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,648 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,057 | 15.9 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,683 | 21.1 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,963 | 16.4 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,354 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,801 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,489 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,250 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,196 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,600 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,894 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,470 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,717 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,549 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Glory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,000 Americans recorded as Glory, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 107 girls and 9 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Glory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Glory, and how old are they?
4,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 5,000 Americans ever recorded as Glory. The median Glory alive today is 25 years old; half are between 10 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 4,831 people named Glory (4,641 women and girls, 190 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,813 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 159 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 782 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 501 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 445 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 973 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,370 |
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 Glory born?
The states with the most babies named Glory are Texas, California and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,838 | 0.9× |
| California | 9 | #2,161 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,984 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,118 | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,208 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 5 | #961 | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #926 | 0.0× |
Where Glory is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Glory is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1915 it was given 2.3 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 Glory 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 423,303 babies since 1880, Glory is the second most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 116 of their 553 babies (21%), again the second most given.
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 Glory
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Darlyn | 2,097 | |
| Evangelina | 10,319 | |
| Gwendolynn | 1,454 | |
| Neila | 1,405 | |
| Viviane | 1,014 | |
| Maris | 2,903 |
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 Glory and names like it
- Compare Glory and GloriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGlory peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Glory since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Glory: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Glory.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Glory alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.