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Gloriana

#7,613 in 2025Girls' name

Glory

Gloriana has been given to 803 babies in the U.S. since 1929. In 2025 it ranked #7,613 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Gloriana, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gloriana: meaning, origin, and history

Glory

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gloriana means

Gloriana means “glory”, associated with glōria.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Coined by English poet Edmund Spenser to represent Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590), from Latin glōria (“glory”) + -ana, from Latin -āna, feminine of -ānus (“of or pertaining to”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Gloriana is used in English.

Gloriana comes through Latin -āna.

Gloriana is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 803 girls were recorded with the name Gloriana between 1929 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2018; its best national rank was #3,164 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,292 in 2020 to #7,613 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,635 in 2015 to #7,613 in 2025.

How common is Gloriana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,613
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gloriana 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 2025 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gloriana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Glorianas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gloriana was born before 2011 — so the typical Gloriana is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
768
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (271).

Is Gloriana 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
−1,370
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,321
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,978
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.8%
Peak was 2018 (37)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,164
1930

Spellings of Gloriana

Gloriana is not the most common spelling — Gloria is, with 95.1% against Gloriana's 0.18%.

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 Gloriana is used

Across 1910–2025, Gloriana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 975,645 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Gloriana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gloriana around the world

Where Gloriana 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
    2016–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2025
    #6,746
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gloriana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,613
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,321
Best rank ever
#3,164
1930
Peak year
2018
37 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
803
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Gloriana

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

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Sibling names for Gloriana

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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