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Glenice

Girls' name

Form of Glenys

Glenice has been given to 943 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1931, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Glenice, 1968

1 in 483,000

Glenice over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Glenice: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Glenys

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Glenice means

Glenice is a form of Glenys.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Glenice is used in Welsh.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Glenice → Glenys → glân. The family’s meaning is “pure, refined”, recorded in Welsh with the source elements glân.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Glenys.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 943 girls were recorded with the name Glenice between 1907 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1931; its best national rank was #1,353 in 1931.

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 Glenice?

Glenice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1968
1 in 483,000
7 of 3,378,301 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1968
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
334,524 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Glenice 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 1968 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 334,524 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Glenice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Glenices were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Glenice was born before 1937 — so the typical Glenice is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
202
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1920s — 23.6% of all recorded uses (223).

Is Glenice 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 1931 (30)
Years since peak
94
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,353
1931

Spellings of Glenice

Glenice is not the most common spelling — Denice is, with 43.0% against Glenice's 3.8%.

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 Glenice is used

Across 1910–2025, Glenice was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 159,780 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 20,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —
  3. 3Virginia1 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. Glenice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Glenice around the world

Where Glenice 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.

  • South Australia
    1944–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Glenice by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,353
1931
Peak year
1931
30 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
1968
All-time count
943
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Glenice

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

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Sibling names for Glenice

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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