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Glenn vs Glenola

American parents have registered 250,778 Glenns since 1880, against 188 Glenolas. Glenn is still ahead, with 124 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Glenn against Glenola, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Glenn Glenola

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Glenn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1905, when Glenn had 203 and Glenola had 7.

Side by side

  Glenn Glenola
Total US births 250,778188
Most in one year 7,38912
Babies in 2025 124under 5
Estimated living today 135,00013
Median age today 6488
Peak year 19621917
Best rank 55th boys2,552nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,443rdunranked
First recorded 18801905
Girls / boys 2,136 / 248,642188 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Glenolas alive today are over 88; half the Glenns are over 64. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Glenn and Glenola.