as a First Name
From the Latin word meaning ‘glory’, not used as a given name before the 20th century. It first occurs as the name of a character in George Bernard Shaw's play You Never Can Tell (1898), and was fairly popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
| 108th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 429,081
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Mexico
- has the most people named Gloria per capita
- 1945
- marked the height of its popularity
99.92%
0.08%
70%
55+
55+
22%
30-54
30-54
4%
13-29
13-29
4%
0-12
0-12
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U.S. Distribution Map
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