Gloria

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Gloria

Say it: GLOH-ryah

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Meaning

Latin and Spanish 'glory', associated with Our Lady of Glory and the hymn Gloria in excelsis.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Came into use as a given name around 1900 and peaked in mid-20th-century America.

Its wave through time

A fashion of the 1940s

In the United States

414,650 babies given this name since 1881
At its height in 1945, about 1 in 118 girls
502 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Spanish Portuguese English American Brazilian

The family of the name

Portuguese	Glória
Catalan	Glòria
Basque	Aintzane
Spanish	Gloria
Italian	Gloria

Famous bearers

Gloria Fuertes, Spanish poet
Gloria Swanson, American actress

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Where this comes from

Calendars of saints and name days
National birth statistics of European countries source
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Well-known works of literature
National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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