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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| 1880 | — | — | ||
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.
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 15,898 of them was named Glory, which outranked 89.7% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,869Lacy108
- #1,869Milly108
- #1,869Samaira108
- #1,878Glory107
- #1,878Aniston107
- #1,878Cheyanne107
- #1,878Empress107
- #1,890Aveline106
- #1,890Caydence106
- #1,890Coralie106
Tied with 11 names at #1,878; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 259,451 of them was named Glory, which outranked 31.5% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,819Ziyah8
- #8,819Zymarion8
- #8,819Zyrus8
- #9,670Glory7
- #9,670Aaban7
- #9,670Aanay7
- #9,670Aashrith7
- #10,760Aabid6
- #10,760Aadhiran6
- #10,760Aadyant6
Tied with 1,089 names at #9,670; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.