Gloria

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Gloria boys named Gloria

By the numbers

Total US births

417,018

Estimated living today

232,000

Median age today

71

Peak year

1947

Best rank

27th

Rank in 2025

654th

First recorded

1881

Girls / boys

415,281 / 1,737

How old the living Glorias are

born that year still alive today

Of the 417,018 babies given the name since 1881, about 232,000 are alive — 56 in every hundred. Roughly 9,700 of them are children and 154,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 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 the name comes from

Origin Latin

From Latin gloria (“glory”), first used as a name in 19th-century literature.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Glorias

• Gloria Swanson (1899–1983)American actress
• Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (born 1947)Filipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
• Gloria Steinem (born 1934)American activist and journalist
• Gloria Estefan (born 1957)Cuban-American singer
• Gloria Stuart (1910–2010)American actress
• Gloria Gaynor (born 1943)American singer
• Gloria Grahame (1923–1981)American actress
• Gloria Vanderbilt (1924–2019)American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer

People named Gloria with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Gloria is most common

• NY41,319
• TX41,165
• CA38,264
• PA23,804
• IL19,958
• MI14,845
• OH14,467
• GA13,631
• LA13,610
• NC11,970

Relative to how many babies each state records, Gloria is most concentrated in New Mexico (1.9×), Louisiana (1.8×), Mississippi (1.8×), the District of Columbia (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1947

The most popular girls’ names the year Gloria peaked:

• Linda
• Mary
• Patricia
• Barbara
• Sandra
• Carol

All the names of 1947

Gloria elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Gloria: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Gloria is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.13% of children were given it – 80 of them.

Gloria: rank by region

In 2025, Gloria was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Gloria was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Gloria was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Gloria appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (34th), Province of Liège (70th), Province of East Flanders (78th), Province of Hainaut (90th), Province of Limburg (117th), Brussels-Capital Region (132nd) and Province of Antwerp (182nd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Gloria by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Gloria among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Gloria lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 44,473 women called Gloria were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Glory
• Glover
• Gloriana
• Glorianna
• Glori

Gloria against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Gloria vs Glory
• Gloria vs Glover
• Gloria vs Gloriana
• Gloria vs Glorianna
• Gloria vs Glori

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