Glenis
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Glenis has been given to 432 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1949, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.
Babies named Glenis, 2020
1 in 668,000
Glenis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Glenis over time
In 2020, Glenis went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Glenis?
Glenis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 323,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Glenis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Glenis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gleniss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Glenis was born before 1944 — so the typical Glenis is around 81 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 21.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.2%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 154
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Glenis 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
- —
- 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 1949 (13)
- Years since peak
- 76
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.1% average annual change
Spellings of Glenis
Glenis is not the most common spelling — Alexis is, with 65.9% against Glenis's 0.08%.
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.
Glenis around the world
Where Glenis 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 Australia1944–1971#724in 1971
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Glenis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Glenis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Glenis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.