Glenis
694 NZ births on record
Where Glenis stands
694NZ births · 1937–2025
Glenis has been registered 694 times in New Zealand since 1937. It did not clear the 10-birth reporting floor in 2025, so the DIA published no figure for it that year.
Its moment was 1948, when 46 babies were given it.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How Glenis's figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
- A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Glenis was under the floor in no year of its NZ record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000 reporting floor (share) = 10 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
Glenis in the United States
Between 1963 and 2020 the name has been falling — down 34% as a share of girls' births.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Glenis in New Zealand
In New Zealand, Glenis has been registered 694 times since 1937, peaking in 1948 with 46 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Glenis in England & Wales
Glenis does not appear in the ONS list for England and Wales. That means it was given to fewer than 3 babies in every year from 2019 to 2025 — not that it is unused there. ONS publishes only those seven years, so a name that had its moment in England before 2019 is invisible here however common it once was.
SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | below floor | <5 |
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1960 | below floor | <5 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1980 | below floor | <5 |
| 1990 | below floor | <5 |
| 2000 | below floor | <5 |
| 2010 | below floor | <5 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.
Questions about Glenis
How popular is the name Glenis?
Glenis did not clear the 10-birth reporting floor in 2025, so no figure was published for it that year. Its best NZ rank was #101 in 1948.
When was Glenis most popular?
Glenis peaked in 1948, when 46 babies in New Zealand were given the name.
Is Glenis rising or falling?
Measured as a share of all girls' births, Glenis has been falling between 1963 and 2020 (-34%).
Names that had their moment when Glenis did
Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1949, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026
