Meaning and history
Probably a feminine form of Glenn created with the suffix da, as in names like Linda and Wanda, Glenda was not in regular use until the 20th century.
20062006: 72 births, rank #2,538
2007: 75 births, rank #2,485
2008: 61 births, rank #2,887
2009: 57 births, rank #3,000
2010: 46 births, rank #3,470
20112011: 48 births, rank #3,350
2012: 39 births, rank #3,915
2013: 32 births, rank #4,422
2014: 30 births, rank #4,657
2015: 27 births, rank #4,981
20162016: 33 births, rank #4,345
2017: 24 births, rank #5,338
2018: 24 births, rank #5,315
2019: 22 births, rank #5,612
2020: 24 births, rank #5,168
20212021: 27 births, rank #4,833
2022: 18 births, rank #6,464
2023: 23 births, rank #5,390
2024: 24 births, rank #5,300
20252025: 20 births, rank #5,917
Glenda rose from #969 to #898 for girls between 1988 and 1989. Its highest annual birth count came in 1950, with 4,215 births.