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Glennie vs Glennis

American parents have registered 2,777 Glennises since 1880, against 2,225 Glennies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Glennie against Glennis, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Glennie Glennis

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 110 years in which either name was published, Glennis for 66 years and Glennie for 44 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Glennie Glennis
Total US births 2,2252,777
Most in one year 6380
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 4801,300
Median age today 7671
Peak year 19161947
Best rank 915th girls1,141st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18811912
Girls / boys 1,931 / 2942,056 / 721

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Glennies alive today are over 76; half the Glennises are over 71. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Glennie and Glennis.