Glinda

Last seen for girls in 2008 at #17,504

Peak · girls
1951 · 142 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,547
since 1931

Glinda over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Glinda has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201931peak #733, 1951girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2008#17,5045
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1993#10,5887
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1990#9,2478
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1988#7,6919
1987#8,7787
1986#9,5456
1985#9,3076
1984#9,1446
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1982#10,5175
1981#9,1106
1980#5,24513
1979#10,2105
1978#5,95810
1977#6,3409
1976#4,90512
1975#7,1737
1974#4,22714
1973#3,23320
1972#3,27619
1971#3,06222
1970#2,77925
1969#2,29631
1968#2,02435
1967#2,11731
1966#1,76641
1965#1,76841
1964#2,01135
1963#1,47857
1962#1,62748
1961#1,23280
1960#1,40561
1959#1,16583
1958#1,10491
1957#1,15384
1956#1,08690
1955#858128
1954#936106
1953#860118
1952#808126
1951#733142
1950#777124
1949#813115
1948#816113
1947#825113
1946#97973
1945#97962
1944#94567
1943#1,04858
1942#1,19544
1941#1,27136
1940#1,90018
1939#1,79719
1938#2,44712
1937#2,73510
1936#2,52111
1935#2,73110
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First appearance
1931

The first year at least five girls were named Glinda! It came in at #3,497, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1932, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Glinda is popular in 1931

No state had 5 or more girls named Glinda in 1931, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Glinda
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2008
  • Biggest jump: 154 spots in 1947 (#979 → #825)
  • Biggest drop: 228 spots in 1956 (#858 → #1,086)
Rise & fade · girls
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1931
  • Peaked 1951 at #733 (142 births)
  • Births halved by 1960, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1944–1955
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,682
  • Highest: 1 in 12,682 girls born in 1951 were named Glinda (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 378,188 girls born in 2008 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 42.9% of all girls named Glinda (1,092) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s75#1,797 (1939)#2,783
1940s699#813 (1949)#1,077
1950s1,092#733 (1951)#948
1960s460#1,232 (1961)#1,772
1970s143#2,779 (1970)#5,116
1980s58#5,245 (1980)#8,667
1990s15#9,247 (1990)#9,918
2000s5#17,504 (2008)#17,504

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Glinda in 1931

girls
#3,497
7 births · 1 in 152,104 girls

Top girls' names in 1931

  1. #1Mary60,299
  2. #2Betty36,105
  3. #3Dorothy26,524
  4. #4Barbara21,804
  5. #5Joan19,119
  6. #6Helen17,664
  7. #7Margaret17,332
  8. #8Patricia16,469
  9. #9Shirley14,405
  10. #10Doris13,629
  11. #3,497Glinda7
More about 1931

girls

1,064,728 girls got a published name in 1931; 1 in 152,104 of them was named Glinda, which outranked 29.8% of the 4,979 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Glinda
  1. #3,226Zenia8
  2. #3,226Zera8
  3. #3,226Zeta8
  4. #3,497Glinda7
  5. #3,497Adria7
  6. #3,497Ailie7
  7. #3,497Alberto7
  8. #3,848Adabelle6
  9. #3,848Adair6
  10. #3,848Addis6

Tied with 350 names at #3,497; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1930
Risers
  1. ↑ 857Joretta#1,320 → #463
  2. ↑ 519Joetta#1,460 → #941
  3. ↑ 483Sondra#1,031 → #548
  4. ↑ 465Celine#1,460 → #995
  5. ↑ 343Lynne#1,274 → #931
Fallers
  1. ↓ 377Margo#937 → #1,314
  2. ↓ 349Rachael#894 → #1,243
  3. ↓ 317Evelyne#926 → #1,243
  4. ↓ 287Vivien#971 → #1,258
  5. ↓ 283Ardeth#629 → #912

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1931 →