Gloria
Top 1000
About Gloria
Gloria is beginning to move beyond its de-glamorized Grandma image, most recently thanks to glamorous young Hollywood parents Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, who chose it for their second daughter. Gyllenhaal was quoted as saying they had been inspired by Patti Smith's rendition of the Van Morrison song "Gloria" at a concert and thought " 'We'll name our daughter that one day'."
George Bernard Shaw was one of the first to use this form of the ancient Latin name GLORIANA in his 1898 play You Never Can Tell It was a Top 25 name in the Gloria (born Josephine) Swanson era of the 1920s,--reaching as high as Number 20 in 1925-26) and held on in the Top 50 until 1955.
Most prominent current adult bearers: Gloria Steinem and Gloria Estefan. Glorias have also figured prominently in TV sitcoms--as Archie and Edith's only child on All in the Family and the sexpot character played by Sofia Vergara on Modern Family.
Pronounced GLORE-ee-ah.
As of October 2026, Gloria ranked #655 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #20 in 1926, Nameberry popularity #501.
Editor's take: The name Gloria is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "glory".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #541 | 572 | 320.2 |
| 2015 | #526 | 597 | 334.4 |
| 2016 | #550 | 567 | 320 |
| 2017 | #561 | 544 | 315.1 |
| 2018 | #582 | 528 | 310.4 |
| 2019 | #558 | 547 | 325.9 |
| 2020 | #577 | 510 | 315.5 |
| 2021 | #571 | 530 | 323 |
| 2022 | #630 | 468 | 285.3 |
| 2023 | #671 | 438 | 273 |
| 2024 | #654 | 447 | 275.9 |
| 2025 | #655 | 437 | 271.9 |
World rankings
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Gloria on lists
Famous Glorias
- Gloria Steinem
American women’s rights activist
- Gloria Rachel Allred
American women's rights attorney
- Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan
Cuban,American pop singer
- (Mariae) Gloria Ferdinanda Gerda Charlotte Teutonia Franziska Magarethe Frederike Simone Johanna Joachima Josefine Wilhelmine Huberta
Princess of Thurn und Taxis, Countess of Schönburg in Glauchau and Waldenburg
- Gloria Laura Vanderbilt
American heiress and designer; mother of TV journalist Anderson Cooper
- Gloria May Josephine Swanson
American actress
- Gloria Marie Steinem
American feminist author and activist
- Gloria Grahame
American actress
- Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo, 14th president of the Philippines
- Gloria Naylor
American novelist
- Gloria Frances Stuart
American actress
- Gloria Gaynor
American disco singer
- Gloria Gruber
American actress
- Gloria Tang aka G.E.M.
Hong Kong pop singer
- Gloria Trevi (born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz)
Mexican pop singer
- Gloria Mills "Millie" Chapman (b. 1991)
daughter of singers Amy Grant and Gary Chapman
- Gloria Vanes (b. 2003)
daughter of Belgian singer Axelle Red and Filip Vanes
- Gloria Ray Sarsgaard (b. 2012)
daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard
- Gloria Griffin (b. 2017)
daughter of athletes Robert Griffin III and Grete Šadeiko
- Gloria Rand
First Wife of Star Trek actor William Shatner
Gloria in pop culture
- Gloria Pritchett
character on TV's "Modern Family"
- Gloria Stivic
character on TV's 'All in the Family'
- Gloria Mendoza
character on TV's "Orange Is the New Black"
- Gloria Cruz
character on TV's "Army Wives"
- Gloria Akalitus
character on TV's "Nurse Jackie"
- Gloria Bedlington
character in "Sims" series
- Gloria
character on TV's "The Vampire Diaries"
- Gloria
character in movie "Colossal"
- Gloria
song by U2
- Gloria
song by Laura Branigan
- Viva La Gloria
song by Green Day
- Gloria
song by Michael Franti
- Gloria
song by Van Morrison's band Them
- Gloria
character in "Madagascar"
- Gloria
a penguin in Happy Feet