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Gladys
Pronounced /ˈɡlædɪs/
Rank in 2024
#3,487
Born in 2024
45
Peak year
1920 · #22
Origin
Welsh
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 45 girls were named Gladys, about 1 in every 35,849.
- It peaked in 1920 with 8,819 babies, ranked #22.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 266,666 girls have been named Gladys since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Gladys per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 7.6Greatest1901–27
- 2.8Silent1928–45
- 0.6Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 154,807 babies, 7.56 per 1,000. Silent: 58,260 babies, 2.82 per 1,000. Boomers: 22,573 babies, 0.63 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,291 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,482 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,688 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 790 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Anglicized from Welsh Gwladus, of uncertain origin, perhaps connected with gwlad (“country”).
- A female given name from Welsh.
- Origin
- Welsh
- Say it
- /ˈɡlædɪs/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Gladys, CC BY-SA 4.0.