Glynis
Glynis was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 2,024 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,730 Americans named Glynis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 59 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Glynis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Glynis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Glynis is “a female given name from Welsh, variant of Glenys.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Glynis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,484, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
283 babies in 1963, the peak
Glynis peaked in 1963, when 283 babies were given it (278 girls, #596 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #18,484 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,014 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,194 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,885 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,971 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,196 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,280 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,831 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 11 | #7,480 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,669 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,923 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,308 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,148 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,898 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,519 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,635 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,904 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,709 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,666 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,544 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,682 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,155 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,620 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,914 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,070 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,634 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 67 | #1,339 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 101 | #1,033 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 152 | #805 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 230 | #672 | 0.12 |
| 1963 | 278 | #596 | 0.14 |
| 1962 | 117 | #993 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 63 | #1,409 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 55 | #1,453 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,035 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 59 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 107 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 54 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 69 | #1,208 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 55 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,591 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,514 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,063 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,440 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,542 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,637 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,839 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,467 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,504 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Glynis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Glynis has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Glynis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Glynis, and how old are they?
1,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 2,024 Americans ever recorded as Glynis. The median Glynis alive today is 62 years old; half are between 59 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 2,003 people named Glynis (1,975 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,820 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 15 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,050 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 514 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 125 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 26 |
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 Glynis born?
The states with the most babies named Glynis are California, New York and Texas, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 132 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 130 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 119 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 63 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 49 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 37 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 35 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Glynis 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,583 babies since 1880, Glynis is the most given (78% of them).
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 Glynis
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Glynis and names like it
- Compare Glynis and GlynnisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sGlynis peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Glynis since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Glynis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Glynis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.