# Glenys (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/glenys/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | Welsh |
| Meaning | “clean”, “holy” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Glynis |
| US babies named this | 570 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 570 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

A twentieth century coinage from Welsh glân (“clean, holy”) + -ys.

## What it means

Glenys is grouped under holy.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 6 | 5,522 |
| 1957 | 10 | 4,026 |
| 1958 | 6 | 5,652 |
| 1959 | 10 | 4,126 |
| 1962 | 5 | 6,922 |
| 1964 | 8 | 5,167 |
| 1969 | 6 | 6,913 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,423 |
| 1984 | 5 | 10,976 |
| 1989 | 5 | 13,073 |
| 1996 | 5 | 14,274 |
| 1998 | 5 | 14,955 |
| 1999 | 5 | 15,227 |
| 2001 | 7 | 12,511 |
| 2009 | 9 | 11,811 |

## People named Glenys

- Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, British politician (1944–2023)
- Glenys Bakker, curler

## 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.