Glenys
Glenys is a girl's name that peaked in 1925, when it was the 1,795th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2009. About 230 Glenyses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Glenys
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 570
- Estimated living today
- 230
- Median age today
- 73
- Peak year
- 1925
- Best rank
- 1,795th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1911
How old the living Glenyses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 570 babies given the name since 1911, about 230 are alive — 40 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 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 Welsh
A twentieth century coinage from Welsh glân (“clean, holy”) + -ys.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Glenyss
- Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead (1944–2023)British politician
- Glenys Bakker (born 1962)curler
People named Glenys with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Glenys is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Glenys is most concentrated in Maine (222.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1925
The most popular girls’ names the year Glenys peaked:
Glenys elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand girls | Glenys | 410 | 65th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Glenys 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.