Gladis

given name · Latin script

Meaning: of Slavic origin (see Gladish), or a dialect variant of Claudius, the name of a 7th-century archbishop of Besan^on

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

/gladis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gladis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 81st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 706(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 719
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 1.5K

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.

Argentina (inferred from the name graph)

≈29,000 people, est.

Sources
220 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 706 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

of Slavic origin (see Gladish), or a dialect variant of Claudius, the name of a 7th-century archbishop of Besan^on.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gladis 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 Gladis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#322≈29,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K7Gladis67
CO Colombia#390≈23,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K5Gladis76
PE Peru#410≈16,000 est.≈1 in 2K—Gladis51
HN Honduras#81≈13,000 est.≈1 in 706—Gladis21
SV El Salvador#157≈9,000 est.≈1 in 719—Gladis25
VE Venezuela#5067,9321 in 3.6K7.9KGladis32

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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)

Gladis is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Peru

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gládis, Gladḯs, Glâdîs, Ģladis, Gladîș

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gladiš, Gládis, Gladîş

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Glädïs, Gládis

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Peru, United States, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Gládis

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Gladis

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Poland

    Also written Gladiš

49 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)

Gladis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Esperanto, past of gladi

    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)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Gladis,Hi Gladis, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 56 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Gladis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—7.9K#253
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20247#2,396
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—5#116
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20143—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20143—

Reference works 4

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 Gladis mean, and where does it come from?
of Slavic origin (see Gladish), or a dialect variant of Claudius, the name of a 7th-century archbishop of Besan^on. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gladis?
A machine transcription gives /gladis/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Gladis a male or female name?
Gladis 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.
In which country does Gladis have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Gladis in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gladis.
How common is the name Gladis?
In Venezuela, the national register counted 7,932 people named Gladis, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
How common is Gladis compared with other names?
In Argentina, Gladis is the 322nd most common given name of 119,825 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, “Gladis” — the 322nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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