Humanverse

Glennie

About 2,225 American babies have been named Glennie since 1881, most of them around 1916. It has not appeared in the national data since 1973. About 480 Glennies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Glennie boys named Glennie

Girls and boys called Glennie

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,931 girls and 294 boys in all, and in 1954 the split was 19 to 12.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 42 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,225
Estimated living today
480
Median age today
76
Peak year
1916
Best rank
915th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1881
Girls / boys
1,931 / 294

How old the living Glennies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,225 babies given the name since 1881, about 480 are alive — 22 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 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 Glennie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Glennie is most concentrated in North Carolina (19.5×), Alabama (15.4×), Mississippi (4.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1916

The most popular girls’ names the year Glennie peaked:

All the names of 1916

Related names

Glennie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

Compare Glennie with a name of your own

Try it on yourself

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.