Ģladys
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ģladys is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 23rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Unadapted borrowing from English Gladys, from Welsh Gwladus.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 300(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 319
- PEPeru≈1 in 340
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ģladys itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #785 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 401 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 297 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gladys in AR Argentina, PE Peru, US United States 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)- EnglishGladys(measured from records)
- WelshGwladus(measured from records)
Unadapted borrowing from English Gladys, from Welsh Gwladus.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ģladys 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Gladys | 37 |
| AR Argentina | #137 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 401 | 13 | Gladys | 124 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 518 | — | Gladys | 23 |
| PE Peru | #65 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 336 | — | Gladys | 98 |
| CO Colombia | #182 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 609 | 36 | Gladys | 127 |
| US United States | — | 81,883 | 1 in 4.1K | 82K | Gladys | 401 |
| EC Ecuador | #58 | 52,926 | 1 in 319 | 53K | Gladys | 75 |
| PY Paraguay | #57 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 297 | — | Gladys | 41 |
| UY Uruguay | #23 | 1,377as Gladis | 1 in 2.5K | 1.4K | Gladys | 50 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ģladys mean, and where does it come from?
- Unadapted borrowing from English Gladys, from Welsh Gwladus. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Is Ģladys a male or female name?
- Ģladys is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ģladys have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 175 thousand people named Ģladys in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gladys.
- How common is the name Ģladys?
- In the United States, the national register counted 81,883 people named Ģladys in 2020, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Ģladys compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Ģladys is the 23rd most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%A3ladysThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ģladys” — the 23rd most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.