Gladys
A girls’ name of Welsh origin, meaning princess; a form of Gwladys.
Gladys by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Gladys. In the US, 73 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 8,819 babies in 1920, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Gladys. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Gladissword; variant of Gladys8 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a prince or princess
Like Gladys, each of these has a prince or princess in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Sarahprincess3,986 in the US (2017)
- Sadieprincess; from Sarah3,695 in the US (2017)
- Saraprincess; variant of Sarah427 in England and Wales (2025)
- Parisson of priam; the trojan prince1,149 in the US (2017)
- Zarablooming flower or princess625 in England and Wales (2025)
- Amiraprincess; female form of amir396 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Gladys
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