Girl · Welsh
Glenda
Say it: GLEN-duh
Meaning
A modern Welsh name from glân 'clean, pure, holy' + da 'good'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A 20th-century Welsh coinage, most common in the US in the 1940s and 1950s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1940s
In the United States
- 109,398 babies given this name since 1900
- At its height in 1944, about 1 in 394 girls
- 23 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Glenda Jackson, English actress
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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