Glynn
Glynn was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 5,360 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Glynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 53 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Glynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Glynn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,798, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
141 babies in 1950, the peak
Glynn peaked in 1950, when 141 babies were given it (131 boys, #596 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #12,798 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,865 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,716 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,013 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,264 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,209 | 3.1 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,003 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,689 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,856 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,652 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 8 | #7,892 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,787 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,502 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,125 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,968 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,785 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,708 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,350 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,378 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,128 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,502 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,035 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,094 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,684 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,634 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,140 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,453 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,270 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 27 | #1,999 | 15.0 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,303 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,745 | 18.2 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,741 | 18.4 |
| 1980 | 36 | #1,636 | 20.2 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,803 | 18.0 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,151 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 41 | #1,434 | 25.0 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,018 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 42 | #1,350 | 26.9 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,600 | 19.7 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,668 | 18.0 |
| 1972 | 31 | #1,546 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 36 | #1,425 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,107 | 29.6 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,190 | 24.6 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,155 | 24.7 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,050 | 28.1 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,047 | 27.5 |
| 1965 | 51 | #1,038 | 27.4 |
| 1964 | 66 | #939 | 33.1 |
| 1963 | 77 | #861 | 37.9 |
| 1962 | 82 | #839 | 39.6 |
| 1961 | 94 | #786 | 44.3 |
| 1960 | 76 | #871 | 35.6 |
| 1959 | 79 | #854 | 37.0 |
| 1958 | 98 | #743 | 46.2 |
| 1957 | 88 | #798 | 40.8 |
| 1956 | 97 | #746 | 45.9 |
| 1955 | 116 | #681 | 56.3 |
| 1954 | 110 | #688 | 54.0 |
| 1953 | 108 | #689 | 54.8 |
| 1952 | 103 | #689 | 53.0 |
| 1951 | 97 | #703 | 51.5 |
| 1950 | 131 | #596 | 73.2 |
| 1949 | 122 | #614 | 68.8 |
| 1948 | 109 | #651 | 62.1 |
| 1947 | 126 | #607 | 68.9 |
| 1946 | 94 | #669 | 57.9 |
| 1945 | 79 | #680 | 58.7 |
| 1944 | 75 | #719 | 55.0 |
| 1943 | 108 | #608 | 75.7 |
| 1942 | 84 | #702 | 60.8 |
| 1941 | 84 | #666 | 68.4 |
| 1940 | 79 | #682 | 68.2 |
| 1939 | 72 | #704 | 65.0 |
| 1938 | 62 | #781 | 55.9 |
| 1937 | 67 | #745 | 62.8 |
| 1936 | 57 | #812 | 55.0 |
| 1935 | 74 | #705 | 71.1 |
| 1934 | 79 | #685 | 76.5 |
| 1933 | 60 | #791 | 60.5 |
| 1932 | 61 | #818 | 58.4 |
| 1931 | 68 | #753 | 65.4 |
| 1930 | 67 | #787 | 61.1 |
| 1929 | 47 | #987 | 43.7 |
| 1928 | 73 | #756 | 65.9 |
| 1927 | 60 | #876 | 53.2 |
| 1926 | 58 | #881 | 52.2 |
| 1925 | 63 | #838 | 56.5 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,008 | 43.3 |
| 1923 | 58 | #900 | 52.9 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,091 | 38.6 |
| 1921 | 54 | #955 | 49.0 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,144 | 36.6 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,277 | 31.6 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,045 | 41.4 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,141 | 37.8 |
| 1916 | 43 | #977 | 48.3 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,194 | 35.4 |
| 1914 | 34 | #955 | 51.9 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,035 | 46.8 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,150 | 39.5 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,445 | 31.0 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,358 | 36.0 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,201 | 42.7 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,414 | 34.1 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,061 | 48.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Glynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,360 Americans recorded as Glynn, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Glynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Glynn, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 49% of the 5,360 Americans ever recorded as Glynn. The median Glynn alive today is 66 years old; half are between 53 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 2,887 people named Glynn (321 women and girls, 2,566 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 312 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,330 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 548 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 324 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 104 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 22 |
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 Glynn born?
The states with the most babies named Glynn are Texas, Louisiana and Georgia, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 785 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Louisiana | 775 | not ranked | 7.0× |
| Georgia | 346 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Tennessee | 221 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Mississippi | 111 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Arkansas | 71 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 62 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 56 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 41 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Glynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Glynn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 7.0 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 boys’ 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 Glynn 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 6,835 babies since 1880, Glynn 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 Glynn
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 Glynn and names like it
- Compare Glynn and GlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGlynn peaked in 1950.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Glynn since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Glynn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Glynn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.