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Glenna vs Glennda

American parents have registered 25,629 Glennas since 1880, against 561 Glenndas. Glenna is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Glenna against Glennda, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Glenna Glennda

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

Glenna 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 1998, when Glenna had 30 and Glennda had 5.

Side by side

  Glenna Glennda
Total US births 25,629561
Most in one year 64534
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 12,000430
Median age today 7268
Peak year 19511954
Best rank 310th girls1,769th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932ndunranked
First recorded 18801934
Girls / boys 25,624 / 5561 / 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 Glennas alive today are over 72; half the Glenndas are over 68. That is 4 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: Glenna and Glennda.