as a First Name
Modern Welsh coinage, composed of the vocabulary words glân ‘clean, pure, holy’ + da ‘good’. It is also used outside Wales, and is associated particularly with the actress and politician Glenda Jackson (b. 1937).
| 419th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 132,161
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Glenda per capita
- 1944
- marked the height of its popularity
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