Glory
#1,855 for girls in 2025, 107 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 97.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1945 · 57 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,893since 1915
Glory over time
Rank among girls' names. Glory has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,855 | 107 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #2,134 | 89 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #2,176 | 87 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,974 | 99 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #2,024 | 95 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #1,893 | 101 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #1,816 | 112 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #1,878 | 107 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #1,854 | 110 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #1,841 | 112 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #2,259 | 83 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #2,049 | 95 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,439 | 74 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,664 | 66 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,360 | 80 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,126 | 54 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,855 | 62 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,787 | 65 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,669 | 67 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,553 | 67 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,652 | 62 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,556 | 63 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,700 | 55 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,777 | 52 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,703 | 51 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,309 | 58 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,302 | 34 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,158 | 36 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,343 | 33 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,253 | 32 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,983 | 20 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,516 | 36 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,253 | 26 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,671 | 33 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,612 | 20 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,334 | 35 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,516 | 31 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,133 | 38 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,276 | 33 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,175 | 37 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,043 | 40 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,134 | 35 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,975 | 37 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,558 | 23 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,916 | 36 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,547 | 52 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,892 | 39 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,489 | 56 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,359 | 66 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,465 | 58 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,385 | 63 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,383 | 60 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,409 | 57 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,358 | 61 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,453 | 53 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,480 | 47 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,377 | 53 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,344 | 52 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,129 | 70 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,434 | 43 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,411 | 42 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,335 | 47 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,313 | 49 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,337 | 47 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,419 | 38 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,022 | 57 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,545 | 28 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,367 | 36 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,471 | 31 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,569 | 25 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,313 | 32 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,474 | 26 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,805 | 19 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,679 | 21 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,640 | 21 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,550 | 23 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,372 | 28 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,606 | 22 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,685 | 21 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,549 | 24 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,023 | 17 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,766 | 21 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,637 | 25 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,026 | 19 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,667 | 25 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,946 | 20 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,308 | 16 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,732 | 12 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 | — | |
| 1921 | #3,164 | 10 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,097 | 10 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,428 | 13 | — | |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | — | |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Glory! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Glory is popular in 1952
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#284 · 1 in 1,879
- Florida#499 · 1 in 5,452
- Texas#773 · 1 in 10,654
- California#1,183 · 1 in 26,270
Best ever in a state: #284 in Mississippi, 1952.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #284 | 15 | 1 in 1,879 |
| Florida | #499 | 6 | 1 in 5,452 |
| Texas | #773 | 10 | 1 in 10,654 |
| California | #1,183 | 5 | 1 in 26,270 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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| Arizona | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Glory
- 279 spots since 2024 (#2,134 → #1,855)
- 38 spots since 2020 (#1,893 → #1,855)
- 404 spots since 2015 (#2,259 → #1,855)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1945 at #1,022 (57 births)
- Births halved by 1967, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,985 girls born in 2019 were named Glory (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,021 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,022 in 1945, was only 1 in 22,931 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 18.9% of all girls named Glory (926) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 42 | #2,428 (1917) | #3,479 |
| 1920s | 167 | #1,637 (1928) | #2,372 |
| 1930s | 222 | #1,372 (1934) | #1,638 |
| 1940s | 390 | #1,022 (1945) | #1,369 |
| 1950s | 538 | #1,129 (1952) | #1,378 |
| 1960s | 465 | #1,359 (1962) | #1,772 |
| 1970s | 327 | #2,043 (1970) | #2,496 |
| 1980s | 258 | #2,516 (1983) | #3,444 |
| 1990s | 374 | #2,309 (1997) | #3,225 |
| 2000s | 606 | #2,553 (2005) | #2,728 |
| 2010s | 926 | #1,816 (2019) | #2,132 |
| 2020s | 578 | #1,855 (2025) | #2,009 |
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.
Glory in 1952
Top girls' names in 1952
More about 1952
girls
1,854,335 girls got a published name in 1952; 1 in 26,491 of them was named Glory, which outranked 82.3% of the 6,389 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,119Stefanie71
- #1,119Tricia71
- #1,119Vernita71
- #1,129Glory70
- #1,129Felice70
- #1,129Gena70
- #1,129Joanie70
- #1,138Amalia69
- #1,138Christene69
- #1,138Germaine69
Tied with 8 names at #1,129; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.