Given name & surname
Glenna
“from the valley between the hills”
Glenna is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “from the valley between the hills.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “from the valley between the hills.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Glenna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 25,629
- 5 boys · 25,624 girls
- Most popular year
- 1951
- 645 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,349 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −36%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,349 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 645 in 1951. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 13,608 as a first name in 2020; 249 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Glenna’s family of names
Glenna is a feminine form of Glen. Glenna has a related form in Glenn. Glenna has a related form in Glen.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Glenna
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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