Glory

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

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Glory, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Mercy
• Honor
• Harmony
• Cherish
• Blessing
• Amity
• Hope
• Noble
• Patience
• Faith
• Victory
• Loyal

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Glory is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Mexico, Peru

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Glöry, Glóry

60 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.

Glory is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Great beauty and splendor.

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

• English: Anglicized form of GLORIA , now occasionally used as a given name, especially among Blacks.

  as a word

• In enm, alternative form of glorie

  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.

• Glory Leppänenb. 1901FIFinnish actress (1901-1979)
• Glory-Anne Carriereb. 1947CACanadian singer
• Glory Annen Clibberyb. 1952CACanadian actress (1952–2017)
• Glory Edimb. 1982USAmerican writer
• Glory Johnsonb. 1990USAmerican basketball player
• Glory Samjollyb. 1997GBBritish artist
• Glory Ogbonnab. 1998NGNigerian football player (1998–)
• Glory Patrickb. 2000NGNigerian athlete
• Glory Edetb. 2001NGNigerian footballer

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

60 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 36 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Glory mean, and where does it come from?

from Glory Farm in Penn, Buckinghamshire; first attested John de Glorie 1242 Fees (Bk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.

Is Glory a male or female name?

Glory is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), India (India Names Dataset), Finland (DVV) and Spain (INE).

What are other forms of the name Glory?

In the etymology graph, Gloria, Gloriana and Glorinda are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Glory?

It depends on the language: in English /ˈɡlo(ː)ɹi/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /ɠloɾj/; in Spanish /ɡloɾi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

In which country does Glory have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 437 thousand people named Glory in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glory.

How common is the name Glory?

In the United States, the national register counted 4,831 people named Glory in 2020, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.

How common is Glory compared with other names?

In Nigeria, Glory is the 144th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.