Glendora
Feminine · “the valley”
There is a town in California called Glendora, and its founder made the name up for his wife. He took the glen from the landscape and the rest from Leadora, which was her name, and the place has carried the result since the eighteen-eighties.
How old is the name Glendora?
Glendora first appears in US birth records in 1883 — 142 years ago. The typical Glendora alive today was born around 1935, making them about 90 years old. About 1,000 people named Glendora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Glendora most popular?
Glendora peaked in 1927, reaching #747 nationally. See the whole 1927 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Glendora
George Whitcomb founded the town at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains and needed a name for it; the story, recorded locally and repeated since, is that he combined the word for a wooded valley with the second half of his wife Leadora's name. That is a rare thing to be able to document. The given name appears in American records from the eighteen-eighties, which is the same decade, and whether it followed the town or arrived independently by the same route is not something the record settles. Both are plausible and both were happening.
Meaningscholars disagree
the valley, and a woman's name
The Californian town's name is documented as a coinage joining glen to part of a personal name. As a given name it may be that, or it may be Glen and Dora joined independently, which several families did.
Pronouncing Glendora
glen-DOR-uh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. There is no second reading to correct.
Nicknames for Glendora
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1883
- Most girls named
- 1956110 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #747reached in 1927
- Change vs 1977
- 0.0%6 in 1984, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Glendoras among us
people named Glendora are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Glendora sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Both halves are familiar, so the name is read correctly at sight.
- It carries three short forms with quite different characters.
- Its origin is documented down to a town, a decade and a marriage.
- It is a place name to a good many Californians, which cuts both ways.
- Glendora and Glendorah are both in the record and will be confused.
- It reads clearly as a name of the turn of the twentieth century.
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- How many Glendoras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Glendora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Glendora is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Glendora will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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