# Glen (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/glen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ɡlɛn/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 127,054 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 125,706 / 1,348 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 626, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 11 | 4,041 |
| 1967 | 9 | 4,738 |
| 1968 | 14 | 3,675 |
| 1969 | 14 | 3,842 |
| 1970 | 14 | 4,114 |
| 1971 | 11 | 4,908 |
| 1972 | 6 | 7,589 |
| 1973 | 6 | 7,752 |
| 1974 | 8 | 6,439 |
| 1976 | 5 | 9,789 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,911 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,480 |
| 1984 | 5 | 10,973 |
| 1985 | 7 | 8,646 |
| 1988 | 5 | 12,453 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 118 | 1,407 |
| 2012 | 97 | 1,606 |
| 2013 | 102 | 1,552 |
| 2014 | 105 | 1,527 |
| 2015 | 94 | 1,672 |
| 2016 | 84 | 1,803 |
| 2017 | 99 | 1,613 |
| 2018 | 78 | 1,904 |
| 2019 | 74 | 1,984 |
| 2020 | 54 | 2,424 |
| 2021 | 86 | 1,817 |
| 2022 | 72 | 2,088 |
| 2023 | 57 | 2,400 |
| 2024 | 62 | 2,293 |
| 2025 | 74 | 2,026 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,270 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,055 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,172 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,445 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,325 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Glen

- Glen Johnson, English association football player (born 1984)
- Glen Campbell, American musician (1936–2017)
- Glen Powell, American actor (born 1988)
- Glen Kamara, Finnish association football player
- Glen Davis, American basketball player (born 1986)
- Glen De Boeck, Belgian footballer (1971-2025)
- Glen Rice, American basketball player (born 1967)
- Glen Matlock, British bassist
- Glen Cook, American fiction writer (born 1944)
- Glen A. Larson, American television producer and writer (1937–2014)
- Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist
- Glen Benton, American bassist and vocalist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.