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Glenn

Pronounced /ɡlɛn/

Rank in 2024
#1,366
Born in 2024
138
Peak year
1962 · #55
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 138 boys were named Glenn, about 1 in every 12,430.
  • It peaked in 1962 with 7,358 babies, ranked #55.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 248,517 boys have been named Glenn since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Glenn per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 2.2
    Greatest
  2. 2.2
    Silent
  3. 2.9
    Boomers
  4. 1.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 36,353 babies, 2.17 per 1,000. Silent: 45,771 babies, 2.22 per 1,000. Boomers: 107,833 babies, 2.87 per 1,000. Gen X: 36,212 babies, 1.33 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,656 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,561 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,705 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century.
  • (rare) A female given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ɡlɛn/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Glenn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Glen

    Rank
    #2,320
    Born '24
    61
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19572024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Galen

    Rank
    #2,767
    Born '24
    47
    Origin
    Ancient Greek
    1880peak 19492024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Glynn

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19502024