How Many People Are Named Glory?
people named Glory are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 80,268 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,000 babies named Glory in Social Security records from 1915 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
123 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Simply from the English word glory, ultimately from Latin gloria.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Glory, 97.5% were girls and 2.5% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1920s: 100% of the babies were girls then and 92% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Glory alive today is about 33 years old, and 56% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 58 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Glory first appears in the records in 1915 and was given most often in 2019, to 123 babies. In 2025, 116 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1915 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Glory has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,025, in 1945. In 2025 it ranked #1,859.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,859 |
| Best rank | #1,025 (1945) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,117 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Glory alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Glory were born in Texas than in any other state: about 341 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Glory was given 10.3 times as often in Mississippi, 2.5 times in Texas and 1.9 times in California.
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