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Glynis

Girls' name

Pure, refined, through Glenys

Glynis has been given to 2,024 babies in the U.S. since 1939. 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 1963, with 278 recorded.

Babies named Glynis, 2008

1 in 786,000

Glynis over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Glynis: meaning, origin, and history

Pure, refined, through Glenys

Welsh

What Glynis means

Glynis belongs to the name family reached through Glynis → Glenys → glân. Its meaning is “pure, refined”.

Origin, language, and formation

Glynis is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Glenys and glân.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,014 girls were recorded with the name Glynis between 1939 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 278 in 1963; its best national rank was #596 in 1963.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Glynis between 1961 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1961; its best national rank was #4,275 in 1963.

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 Glynis?

Glynis 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 Glynis 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 Glynis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Glyniss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Glynis was born before 1963 — so the typical Glynis is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
56.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,938
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1960s — 56.2% of all recorded uses (1,131).

Is Glynis 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 1963 (278)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#596
1963

Spellings of Glynis

Glynis is not the most common spelling — Alanis is, with 24.1% against Glynis's 14.3%.

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 Glynis is used

Across 1910–2025, Glynis was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 133,711 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Hawaii1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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. Glynis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Glynis around the world

Where Glynis 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.

  • Scotland
    1975–1975
    #497
    in 1975
  • Ireland
    1968–1978
    #522
    in 1978
  • France
    1987–2009
    #6,639
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1951–1980
    #634
    in 1980

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Glynis

People whose public names include Glynis, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Glynis 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
#596
1963
Peak year
1963
278 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
2,014
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,275
1963
Peak year
1961
5 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Glynis

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

GlynnisGlyndaAlanisDennisDenisDonnisGlennisGlynnaGlynnAolanisAnnisYannisLennisTanisElianisJannisGlenisTannisDonisVernisAlianisInisEnnisJanis

Names with a curve like Glynis

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Glynis, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PenniDelindaLesiaTondaLeisaJeanmarieBarbGwynTariLorriTamieDeeann

Sibling names for Glynis

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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