Gleb
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 11 babies a year in the US.
Gleb by the numbers
Gleb was given to 11 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 20 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Gleb
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Gleb. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Glenvalley99 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Gleb
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