Glinda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Glinda has been given to 2,547 babies in the U.S. since 1931. 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 1951, with 142 recorded.
Babies named Glinda, 2008
1 in 786,000
Glinda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Glinda?
Glinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 378,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Glinda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Glinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Glindas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Glinda was born before 1953 — so the typical Glinda is around 72 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 42.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,773
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (1,092).
Is Glinda 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1951 (142)
- Years since peak
- 74
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.0% average annual change
Spellings of Glinda
Glinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 65.8% against Glinda's 0.12%.
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 Glinda is used
Across 1910–2025, Glinda was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 63,155 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 14,286
- 2Alabama1 in 20,000
- 3Louisiana1 in 20,000
- 4Arkansas1 in 25,000
- 5Georgia1 in 33,333
- 6Tennessee1 in 33,333
- 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 8Oklahoma1 in 50,000
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. Glinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Glinda around the world
Where Glinda 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 Australia1946–1947#366in 1947
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Glinda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Glinda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Glinda
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Glinda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Glinda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.