Glee
Glee reached its high-water mark in 1947 at number 2,045, and has been recorded 801 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1971. About 290 Glees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Glee boys named Glee
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 801
- Estimated living today
- 290
- Median age today
- 74
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 2,045th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1893
- Girls / boys
- 781 / 20
How old the living Glees are
born that year still alive today
Of the 801 babies given the name since 1893, about 290 are alive — 36 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Glee is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Glee peaked:
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Glee against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.