Glory

Where Glory comes from

From glory as a variant of the more common Gloria.
— Wiktionary's entry for Glory
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1945
    Peak, #1,022
    57 babies named Glory — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,558.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.