Gladis
Recorded 1898–2025 · United States
Gladis was most popular in 1990, when 69 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,221 that year. In 2025 it ranked #15,103, with 11 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,076 people named Gladis.
Gladis over time
How old is the name Gladis?
Gladis first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1898, which makes it about 127 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 124 of the 128 years since.
How many people are named Gladis?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,076 American births named Gladis between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,871 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Gladis in 2025?
11 American babies were named Gladis in 2025, ranking #15,103 that year.
Is Gladis getting more or less popular?
Gladis is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 12 births a year across 2021–2025 against 18 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Gladis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Gladis is a girl’s name — 99.8% of the 3,076 Americans given it were girls and 0.2% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Gladis?
Roughly 1,871 Americans named Gladis are alive today — 61% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 31 years old, and half are between 22 and 43.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Gladis is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org