Glenna

Where Glenna comes from

From male given name Glen, from Scottish glen (“secluded valley”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Glenna
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1903
    Glenna Collett-Vare born
    American golfer
  3. 1931
    Peak, #256
    564 babies named Glenna — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1959
    Glenna Cabello born
    Venezuelan political scientist
  5. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #633.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, in quiet use since the 19th century.
Namesakes
  • Glenna Collett-Vare · American golfer, 1903–1989
  • Glenna Cabello · Venezuelan political scientist, born 1959
  • Glenna Goodacre · American artist, 1939–2020
  • Glenna Hansen · Canadian politician, born 1956

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.