Glenna
Glenna reached its high-water mark in 1951 at number 310, and has been recorded 25,629 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 12,000 Glennas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 25,629
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 72
- Peak year
- 1951
- Best rank
- 310th
- Rank in 2025
- 11,932nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 25,624 / 5
How old the living Glennas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 25,629 babies given the name since 1880, about 12,000 are alive — 46 in every hundred. Roughly 160 of them are children and 8,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a coined name
From male given name Glen, from Scottish glen (“secluded valley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Glenna is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Glenna is most concentrated in West Virginia (10.5×), Kentucky (5.0×), Oklahoma (3.6×), Idaho (3.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1951
The most popular girls’ names the year Glenna peaked:
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Glenna against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.