Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Gladys

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Gladys
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.5% from peak

Peak era

1920

Peak rank proxy

8,819

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19202024

Peak year

1920

Decline from peak

99.5%

2024

All-time

266,666

Gladys once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1920, when 8,819 girls were named Gladys.

In 2024, only 45 girls were given the name.

Down 99.5% from its peak.

All told, about 266,666 Americans have been named Gladys and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.5% from peak

19208,819 girls named Gladys

202445 girls named Gladys

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