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Gleb

Boys' name

God + inheritance, legacy

Gleb has been given to 162 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2013, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Gleb, 2022

1 in 677,000

Gleb over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gleb: meaning, origin, and history

God + inheritance, legacy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gleb means

Gleb means “god + inheritance, legacy”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gleb is used in Russian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡlʲep/ for Gleb.

Origin, language, and formation

Gleb is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 162 boys were recorded with the name Gleb between 2003 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2013; its best national rank was #4,680 in 2013.

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 Gleb?

Gleb had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gleb sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gleb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Glebs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gleb was born before 2014 — so the typical Gleb is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
75.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
162
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 75.3% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Gleb 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2013 (20)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,680
2013

Spellings of Gleb

Gleb is not the most common spelling — Caleb is, with 17.5% against Gleb's <0.01%.

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 Gleb is used

Across 1910–2025, Gleb was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 336,490 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Gleb has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gleb around the world

Where Gleb 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.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2009–2012
    #718
    in 2012
  • France
    2010–2023
    #5,562
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2009–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1958–1958
    #433
    in 1958

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gleb by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,680
2013
Peak year
2013
20 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
162
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gleb

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

GleeGlendaGleenGlenroyGlendelGleanGlendalGlenardGlendenGlennieKahlebKailebGleasonCailebGlenisCaylebKhalebTalebGlendleGlennisCaelebGlennyGlenmoreGlenford

Sibling names for Gleb

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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