Gloria

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled גלוריה in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gloria is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name206K records spelled Gloria4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Glòria, Glória, Gloría

• Swahili given name118K records spelled Gloria3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Philippines, Kenya

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written Glória

• Polish given name45K records spelled Gloria71 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Croatia, Russia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

  Also written Глория, Glorija, Глорија, Gloriya, Глориа

• Catalan given name45K records spelled Gloria3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Andorra, Argentina

  Also written Glòria, Glória

• Indonesian given name25K records spelled Gloria7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Gloria, Glória, Gloría, Glòria, Gloria'

81 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Gloria is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• From the Latin word meaning ‘glory’, not used as a given name before the 20th century, but now very popular. It first occurs as the name of a character in George Bernard Shaw’s play You Never Can Tell (1898). Glory ° Anglicized form of Gloria, now occasionally used as a given name.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• according to Morlet, an occupational nickname for a singer, from ‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’, part of the mass. A family named Gloria from Rouen was in Quebec city by 1652; another, also called Desrochers, from Angouleme, was in Repentigny, Quebec, by 1694.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Gloria), and French (Brittany and Provence):

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• metronymic from the female personal name Gloria.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, A lightweight fabric used for umbrellas and dresses.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 135 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Gloria Swansonb. 1899USAmerican actress (1899–1983)
• Gloria Stuartb. 1910USAmerican actress (1910–2010)
• Gloria Vanderbiltb. 1924USAmerican businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer (1924-2019)
• Gloria DeHavenb. 1925USAmerican actress and singer (1925-2016)
• Gloria Steinemb. 1934USAmerican activist and journalist (born 1934)
• Gloria Macapagal-Arroyob. 1947PHFilipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
• Gloria Gaynorb. 1949USAmerican singer
• bell hooksb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican author and activist (1952–2021)
• Gloria Estefanb. 1957USCuban-American singer (born 1957)
• Gloria Reubenb. 1964CACanadian actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,575 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gloria?

We estimate roughly 488 thousand people bear Gloria (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Gloria have the most bearers?

Gloria is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled gloria.

Where is Gloria most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gloria is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 270 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.

How common is Gloria compared with other names?

In Mexico, Gloria is the 72nd most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.

Is Gloria a male or female name?

Gloria is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Gloria mean?

Recorded meaning: Latin 'glory'; invented by George Bernard Shaw and used in You Never Can Tell (1898).