Gloria
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Gloria is also given to boys.
Pronounced GLOR-ee-uh.
As of October 2026, Gloria ranked #655 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #20 in 1926, Nameberry popularity #473.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #541 | 572 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #526 | 597 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #550 | 567 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #561 | 544 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #582 | 528 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #558 | 547 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #577 | 510 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #571 | 530 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #630 | 468 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #671 | 438 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #654 | 447 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #655 | 437 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Gloria on lists
Famous Glorias
- Gloria SteinemGirl
American women’s rights activist
- Gloria Rachel AllredGirl
American women's rights attorney
- Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de EstefanGirl
Cuban,American pop singer
- (Mariae) Gloria Ferdinanda Gerda Charlotte Teutonia Franziska Magarethe Frederike Simone Johanna Joachima Josefine Wilhelmine HubertaGirl
Princess of Thurn und Taxis, Countess of Schönburg in Glauchau and Waldenburg
- Gloria Laura VanderbiltGirl
American heiress and designer; mother of TV journalist Anderson Cooper
- Gloria May Josephine SwansonGirl
American actress
- Gloria Marie SteinemGirl
American feminist author and activist
- Gloria GrahameGirl
American actress
- Gloria MacapagalGirl
Arroyo, 14th president of the Philippines
- Gloria NaylorGirl
American novelist
- Gloria Frances StuartGirl
American actress
- Gloria GaynorGirl
American disco singer
- Gloria GruberGirl
American actress
- Gloria Tang aka G.E.M.Girl
Hong Kong pop singer
- Gloria Trevi (born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz)Girl
Mexican pop singer
- Gloria Mills "Millie" Chapman (b. 1991)Girl
daughter of singers Amy Grant and Gary Chapman
- Gloria Vanes (b. 2003)Girl
daughter of Belgian singer Axelle Red and Filip Vanes
- Gloria Ray Sarsgaard (b. 2012)Girl
daughter of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard
- Gloria Griffin (b. 2017)Girl
daughter of athletes Robert Griffin III and Grete Šadeiko
- Gloria RandGirl
First Wife of Star Trek actor William Shatner
Gloria in pop culture
- Gloria PritchettGirl
character on TV's "Modern Family"
- Gloria StivicGirl
character on TV's 'All in the Family'
- Gloria MendozaGirl
character on TV's "Orange Is the New Black"
- Gloria CruzGirl
character on TV's "Army Wives"
- Gloria AkalitusGirl
character on TV's "Nurse Jackie"
- Gloria BedlingtonGirl
character in "Sims" series
- GloriaGirl
character on TV's "The Vampire Diaries"
- GloriaGirl
character in movie "Colossal"
- GloriaGirl
song by U2
- GloriaGirl
song by Laura Branigan
- Viva La GloriaGirl
song by Green Day
- GloriaGirl
song by Michael Franti
- GloriaGirl
song by Van Morrison's band Them
- GloriaGirl
character in "Madagascar"
- GloriaGirl
a penguin in Happy Feet