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The name Glen is of Irish origin, and means narrow valley. The table below indicates the number of times the name Glen has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Glen**
Use of the Name Glen for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
123,427	54,459	9,174	1,961	749	165	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Glen has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Glen last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 2003, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Glen**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	351	24
1881	286	31
1882	336	27
1883	320	27
1884	252	47
1885	246	45
1886	245	49
1887	218	52
1888	196	77
1889	219	58
1890	195	68
1891	157	85
1892	152	106
1893	190	77
1894	143	108
1895	151	102
1896	146	113
1897	176	88
1898	154	111
1899	150	101
1900	156	134
1901	151	105
1902	149	123
1903	152	121
1904	159	119
1905	157	129
1906	165	120
1907	151	150
1908	149	158
1909	145	178
1910	166	183
1911	145	230
1912	139	458
1913	129	605
1914	123	852
1915	122	1,112
1916	122	1,160
1917	122	1,233
1918	125	1,320
1919	116	1,390
1920	122	1,416
1921	119	1,502
1922	123	1,386
1923	122	1,442
1924	118	1,523
1925	117	1,539
1926	121	1,517
1927	115	1,615
1928	114	1,588
1929	122	1,428
1930	115	1,587
1931	112	1,565
1932	118	1,464
1933	124	1,332
1934	119	1,441
1935	124	1,395
1936	120	1,438
1937	122	1,359
1938	121	1,457
1939	123	1,427
1940	130	1,435
1941	138	1,411
1942	144	1,417
1943	146	1,436
1944	146	1,453
1945	147	1,397
1946	145	1,666
1947	137	2,069
1948	133	2,044
1949	127	2,188
1950	125	2,174
1951	127	2,213
1952	121	2,488
1953	129	2,386
1954	131	2,494
1955	131	2,481
1956	125	2,711
1957	129	2,926
1958	131	2,777
1959	133	2,699
1960	144	2,440
1961	134	2,681
1962	128	2,833
1963	143	2,354
1964	154	2,124
1965	150	2,069
1966	161	1,746
1967	157	1,712
1968	162	1,672
1969	135	2,240
1970	155	1,994
1971	174	1,529
1972	202	1,151
1973	241	867
1974	244	817
1975	250	808
1976	260	753
1977	293	663
1978	291	654
1979	321	584
1980	319	599
1981	311	609
1982	329	580
1983	344	526
1984	338	549
1985	362	507
1986	393	463
1987	379	506
1988	394	502
1989	428	482
1990	464	448
1991	484	415
1992	525	370
1993	554	336
1994	575	321
1995	591	301
1996	647	258
1997	685	235
1998	740	218
1999	781	200
2000	774	213
2001	843	191
2002	894	180
2003	964	165
Totals:		123,427		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Glen as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Glen appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 124 times during the last 125 years.

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