Glory
Feminine · “glory”
Glory is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 4,893 girls against 107 boys since 1880.
Glory is a Latin word about reputation before it is about splendor — gloria meant fame and renown, what other people said of you.
How old is the name Glory?
Glory first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Glory alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 4,200 people named Glory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Glory most popular?
Glory peaked in 1945, reaching #1022 nationally. Today it ranks #1855, 833 places below that high. See the whole 1945 chart.
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Where it comes from
From gloria to Glory
The story of Glory
Gloria was used in Latin liturgy long before it was a given name, and became one in the twentieth century. The English Glory is a separate and later formation among the virtue word-names — Faith, Hope, Honor, Glory — and appears in the American registers from the 2000s. It is in current use.
Meaning
glory, renown
From the Latin gloria, 'fame', 'renown' or 'praise', of unrecovered further origin. In classical use it meant reputation among men; Christian Latin turned it toward divine splendor. The English word is ordinary and the shift is documented.
How the name formed
- gloria
- glory
- Glory
Related forms: Gloria · Gloria · Gloire
Pronouncing Glory
GLOR-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Glory
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 2016112 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1022reached in 1945
- Change vs 2023
- +23.0%107 in 2025, from 87
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.
Glory in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gloria in English — related form
- Gloria in Spanish — related form
- Gloire in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Glorys among us
people named Glory are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,021 born in 2025 was named Glory
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Madelon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Glory's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Madelon climbed just as high around 1920, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Madelon's path sketches the road Glory is walking now.
Glory sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Glory is headed
Glory should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Glory beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Glory in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The shift from reputation to splendor is a genuinely good piece of word history.
- Gloria is available as a fuller form with a real record.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It is an ordinary English noun and reads as one.
- Gloria is far commoner and carries the same meaning.
- It carries a claim the bearer has no control over.
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Feminine · #1855 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Glorys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,200 people named Glory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Glory in 2025?
- Glory ranks #1855 among US girl names in 2025, with 107 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Glory?
- About 1 in every 15,021 US girls born in 2025 was named Glory — 107 in all.
- Will my child share the name Glory with classmates?
- Glory will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Glory
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