Glória

loc · Latin script

Meaning: glory

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Glória is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 5th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 221(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 223
  • PEPeru≈1 in 368

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

331,522 people, 2020

#198 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
543 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 221 (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GlóriaLatin(measured from records)
גלוריהHebrew(measured from records)
글로리아Hangul(measured from records)
გლორიაGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gloria in US United States, PE Peru, PH Philippines and 6 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

glory

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Glória counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Glória is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#139331,5221 in 1K331KGloria543
NG Nigeria#159≈260,000 est.≈1 in 829—Gloria118
PH Philippines#60≈220,000 est.≈1 in 486—Gloria114
CO Colombia#64≈220,000 est.≈1 in 221173Gloria187
PE Peru#71≈87,000 est.≈1 in 368—Gloria98
EC Ecuador—62,6331 in 27063KGloria70
CL Chile#78≈46,000 est.≈1 in 399—Gloria135
SV El Salvador#47≈29,000 est.≈1 in 223—Gloria60
JM Jamaica#5≈5,500 est.≈1 in 511—Gloria18

331,522 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Glória is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Glòria, Gloria, Gloría

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Gloria, 'Gloria, Gloria', Glòria, Gloría

  • Russian given name71 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Poland, Croatia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Gloria, Глория, Глорія, Glorija, Gloriya

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Glória is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, glory (great beauty or splendour)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hungarian, halo (luminous disc around the heads of saints)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

192019401960198020002020Glória de Sant'Anna, b. 1925Glória Kalil, b. 1943Glória Gadelha, b. 1947Gloria Perez, b. 1948Glória Maria, b. 1949Glória Coelho, b. 1951Kiara, b. 1962Glória Férias, b. 1963Diogo Glória, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Glória mean, and where does it come from?
glory Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
In which country does Glória have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 332 thousand people named Glória, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gloria.
How common is the name Glória?
In the United States, the national register counted 331,522 people named Glória in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
How common is Glória compared with other names?
In the United States, Glória is the 139th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Glória” — the 139th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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