Gladyes
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gladyes has been given to 112 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Gladyes, 1934
1 in 297,000
Gladyes over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gladyes?
Gladyes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1934
- 1 in 297,000
- 7 of 2,076,780 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 149,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1934
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 205,646 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gladyes sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1934 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 205,646 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gladyes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gladyess were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gladyes was born before 1923 — so the typical Gladyes is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 62.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (70).
Is Gladyes 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1920 (11)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.4% average annual change
Spellings of Gladyes
Gladyes is not the most common spelling — Gladys is, with 98.3% against Gladyes's 0.04%.
Gladyes by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gladyes
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gladyes
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.