Glorya

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Glorya has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1926, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Glorya, 2008

1 in 786,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Glorya?

Glorya 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 Glorya 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Glorya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gloryas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Glorya was born before 1934 — so the typical Glorya is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
37
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Glorya 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 1926 (13)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,622
1926

Spellings of Glorya

Glorya is not the most common spelling — Gloria is, with 69.0% against Glorya's 0.02%.

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.

Glorya around the world

Where Glorya 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.

  • France
    2000–2025
    #4,696
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Glorya 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
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Best rank ever
#2,622
1926
Peak year
1926
13 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
146
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Glorya

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

Sibling names for Glorya

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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