Glynda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Glynda

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,425 babies named Glynda between 1925 and 1985, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Glynda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1985. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 121 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Glynda performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 937 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Glynda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 620 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Glynda in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Glynda 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 2,425 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.