Glenn

A boys’ name of Scottish origin, meaning valley or glen.

Babies a year
140
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4275
4 babies

Glenn by the numbers

In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Glenn. In the US, 140 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 7,357 babies in 1962, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Glenn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Glenvalley99 in the US (2017)
  • Glennavalley; a form of glenn11 in the US (2017)
  • Glynnvalley; from glyn or used as name form
  • Galencalm, peaceful55 in the US (2017)
  • Glendafair and good; from glen and da24 in the US (2017)
  • Glendonvalley with a fort; combination of glen and don19 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean a meadow or field

Like Glenn, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
  • Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
  • Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
  • Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
  • Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
  • Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Glenn

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