Gloria
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gloria is a given 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. Recorded meaning: Latin 'glory'; invented by George Bernard Shaw and used in You Never Can Tell (1898).
- 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)
- #198 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 543 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 221 (inferred from the name graph)
331,522 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Latin 'glory'; invented by George Bernard Shaw and used in You Never Can Tell (1898).
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gloria 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #139 | 331,522 | 1 in 1K | 331K | Gloria | 543 |
| NG Nigeria | #159 | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 829 | — | Gloria | 118 |
| PH Philippines | #60 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 486 | — | Gloria | 114 |
| CO Colombia | #64 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 221 | 173 | Gloria | 187 |
| PE Peru | #71 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 368 | — | Gloria | 98 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 62,633 | 1 in 270 | 63K | Gloria | 70 |
| CL Chile | #78 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 399 | — | Gloria | 135 |
| SV El Salvador | #47 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | — | Gloria | 60 |
| JM Jamaica | #5 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 511 | — | Gloria | 18 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gloria is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From the Latin word meaning ‘glory’, not used as a given name before the 20th century, but now very popular. It first occurs as the name of a character in George Bernard Shaw’s play You Never Can Tell (1898). Glory ° Anglicized form of Gloria, now occasionally used as a given name.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
according to Morlet, an occupational nickname for a singer, from ‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’, part of the mass. A family named Gloria from Rouen was in Quebec city by 1652; another, also called Desrochers, from Angouleme, was in Repentigny, Quebec, by 1694.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Gloria), and French (Brittany and Provence):
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
metronymic from the female personal name Gloria.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A lightweight fabric used for umbrellas and dresses.
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)
- Gloria Swansonb. 1899USAmerican actress (1899–1983)
- Gloria Stuartb. 1910USAmerican actress (1910–2010)
- Gloria Vanderbiltb. 1924USAmerican businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer (1924-2019)
- Gloria DeHavenb. 1925USAmerican actress and singer (1925-2016)
- Gloria Steinemb. 1934USAmerican activist and journalist (born 1934)
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyob. 1947PHFilipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
- Gloria Gaynorb. 1949USAmerican singer
- bell hooksb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican author and activist (1952–2021)
- Gloria Estefanb. 1957USCuban-American singer (born 1957)
- Gloria Reubenb. 1964CACanadian actress
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 137 sources across 71 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 331K | #149 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 63K | #12 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 491 | #149 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 437 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 173 | #18 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Gloria mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin 'glory'; invented by George Bernard Shaw and used in You Never Can Tell (1898). Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Gloria a male or female name?
- Gloria is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Gloria?
- In the etymology graph, Glory, Gloriana and Glorinda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Gloria?
- In the United States, the national register counted 331,522 people named Gloria in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Gloria compared with other names?
- In the United States, Gloria is the 139th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Gloria have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 332 thousand people named Gloria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gloria.
What do you want to know about Gloria?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gloriaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gloria” — the 139th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.