Glynis
About 2,024 American babies have been named Glynis since 1939, most of them around 1963. It has not appeared in the national data since 2008. About 1,700 Glynises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Glynis boys named Glynis
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,024
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1963
- Best rank
- 596th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1939
- Girls / boys
- 2,014 / 10
How old the living Glynises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,024 babies given the name since 1939, about 1,700 are alive — 86 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 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 Welsh
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Glyniss
- Glynis Johns (1923–2024)British actress
- Glynis Barber (born 1955)South African actress
- Glynis Nunn (born 1960)Australian heptathlete
People named Glynis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Glynis is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Glynis is most concentrated in Mississippi (2.3×), Louisiana (2.2×), New York (1.8×), Texas (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1963
The most popular girls’ names the year Glynis peaked:
Glynis elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Glynis | 45 | 6,639th |
| Ireland girls | Glynis | 13 | 357th |
| Scotland girls | Glynis | 3 | 497th |
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.
Related names
Glynis 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.