Glory

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Glory: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Glory: Recorded since 1997, it reached #500 in 2003, and it stood at #2,000 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#500highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1998	#3142
2000	#3247
2001	#3998
2002	#2868
2003	#3594
2004	#2530
2005	#3382
2006	#2781
2007	#1854
2008	#2022
2009	#1909
2010	#2392
2011	#2275
2012	#1720
2013	#2649
2014	#4003
2015	#2945
2016	#2367
2017	#2502
2018	#2499
2019	#2869
2020	#2615
2021	#2942
2022	#2488
2023	#2346
2024	#2000

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2014: #876 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4003 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3174 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2003–2009
Highest recorded position: #500 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 2003–2009).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2000 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Glory appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 232 births with the name.

Glory across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Glory's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#1720 (2012)	#2000 (2024)	27 of 28	232 (1997–2024)	17 (2012)
England and Wales · Boys	#3036 (2000)	#1746 (2001)	#4991 (2023)	14 of 24	65 (2000–2023)	7 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#523 (2005)	#876 (2014)	4 of 13	15 (2002–2014)	5 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#500 (2003)	#701 (2009)	2 of 7	6 (2003–2009)	3 (2003)

Glory by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Glory in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	73	10 of 10	7
2010sbusiest	99	10 of 10	10
2020s	52	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Glory appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #500 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Glory's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2000	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2275	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2022	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #500, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 17 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 5 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Glyn · #272, 23y
Glynn · #254, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Abdel · #500, 26y
Arif · #500, 29y
Ata · #500, 23y
Basit · #500, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abdel · #500, 26y
Arif · #500, 29y
Ayobami · #500, 18y
Ayoola · #500, 13y

Glory was ranked #500 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Glory and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Glory without appearing here.

Glory moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2945 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2367 and #5785.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #5493.
Cameron Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2346 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2000 and #4843.
Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4003 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2945 and #5730.

Moved ahead of Glory

Braxton Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2941 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2954 and #497.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2649 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #1628.
Fredrik Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1746 and #2220 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #2857 and #1248.
Gunnar Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2954 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #4023 and #2556.

Moved the opposite way to Glory

Albie Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Glory went from #3036 to #4991 while Albie went from #624 to #22.
Alfie Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Glory went from #3036 to #4991 while Alfie went from #57 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Glory went from #3036 to #4991 while Alfred went from #139 to #76.
Archie Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Glory went from #3036 to #4991 while Archie went from #81 to #13.

Moved the same way as Glory

Aaron Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Glory went from #3036 to #4991 and Aaron from #36 to #146.
Adam Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Glory went from #3036 to #4991 and Adam from #20 to #41.
Alan Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Glory went from #3036 to #4991 and Alan from #262 to #464.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Glory went from #3036 to #4991 and Alex from #48 to #152.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #500 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Glory

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Glory across 4 official records

Glory by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Glory appears in

Popularity data

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Glory across 4 official records

Glory by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Glory appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Glory

Glory and the names beside it

Glory moved ahead of

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