The name Gloria comes from the Latin word ‘gloria’ for ‘glory, fame, honor’. Gloria is known in many languages including Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Slovenian.
Gloria is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Gloria isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Gloria ranks 521. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Gloria. In total, there are currently 408,112 people – children, adults and seniors – named Gloria living in the United States, which is approximately 0.12 % of the entire population.
The name Gloria comes from the Latin word ‘gloria’ for ‘glory, fame, honor’. Gloria is known in many languages including Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, and Slovenian.
In the U.S.,... it was popularized in the early 20th century by American actress Gloria Swanson (1899-1983).
#20 - this is the highest position Gloria has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Gloria reached this top position was in the last century, in 1926, when 9,235 newborn girls were named Gloria. But as our statistics show, Gloria has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1896, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Gloria is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gloria was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 464 newborns were given the name Gloria, making them rank #575. Although the name Gloria was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Gloria are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Gloria is one of them. However, Gloria is not equally widespread in all states, but people in New Mexico seem to particularly fancy this name – the 4,277 women called Gloria who live here are 0,541% of all female residents and push their name up to #21, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in New Mexico.
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 six letters, the name Gloria is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Gloria 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 Gloria, you can simply say:
Goat
Lion
Orange
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gloria
Gloria
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
L
O
R
I
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
O
R
I
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. Gloria sounds like this:
