Glena is a female first name.
Recently, the name Glena has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Glena. That means that a girl named Glena is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Glena.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Glena. Girls named Glena have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,307 Glena ranked higher than ever in 1934. By comparison, there have been 75 years in which the first name Glena has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Glena only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Glena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Glena is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 60 Americans in total bear this name. And these 60 women are located in only four states: Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Glena and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Glena in relation to it’s female population is Kentucky. And yet even there, only one in 178,441 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Glena.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Glena is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Glena and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Glena, you can simply say:
Goat
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Glena
Glena
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
L
E
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
L
E
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Glena sounds like this:
