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Gladis

#9,062 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly country, through Gladys

Gladis has been given to 3,076 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #9,062 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Gladis, 2025

1 in 301,000

Gladis over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gladis: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly country, through Gladys

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gladis means

Gladis belongs to the name family reached through Gladis → Gladys → Gladys. Its meaning is “country”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gladis is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gladys.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Gladis is pronounced /ˈɡladis/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,071 girls were recorded with the name Gladis between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 1990; its best national rank was #877 in 1909.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,577 in 2020 to #9,062 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,082 in 2015 to #9,062 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Gladis between 1925 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1925; its best national rank was #4,482 in 1925.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gladis?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,062
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gladis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gladis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gladiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gladis was born before 1978 — so the typical Gladis is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,775
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (567).

Is Gladis rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+736
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−485
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,980
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.9%
Peak was 1990 (69)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#877
1909

Spellings of Gladis

Gladis is not the most common spelling — Gladys is, with 96.4% against Gladis's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gladis is used

Across 1910–2025, Gladis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 61,822 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gladis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gladis around the world

Where Gladis ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1913–2011
    #6,190
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1956–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gladis in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gladis. Linked forms have their own page here.

GladieGladysGladia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gladis by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,062
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 485
Best rank ever
#877
1909
Peak year
1990
69 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,071
Count in 2025
11

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,482
1925
Peak year
1925
5 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gladis

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

YehudisKandisCandisGladyceGladyGladaArdisGladiesGlaydsGladieGladineGladysJadisBrandisJordisLandisGlandaMerdisGladyesGlathaGladiolaMurdisGladyseGreydis

Names with a curve like Gladis

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gladis, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KatheryneVashtiCandelariaSoledadDaiseySantinaNevadaNicolettaMaryannaMadalineNanaAudry

Sibling names for Gladis

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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