Meaning and history
Glenna is a feminine form of Glen or Glenn. Those names originated from a Scottish surname based on Gaelic gleann, meaning “valley,” and later entered English given-name use. The feminine ending -a developed after the surname had become a personal name, so Glenna can be interpreted as carrying the same landscape association. Notable bearers include American champion golfer Glenna Collett Vare and American politician and women’s-rights advocate Glenna Smith Tinnin.
20062006: 9 births, rank #11,417
2007: 13 births, rank #9,007
2008: 10 births, rank #10,807
2009: 9 births, rank #11,459
2010: 8 births, rank #12,276
20112011: 10 births, rank #10,374
2012: 8 births, rank #12,199
2013: 11 births, rank #9,612
2014: 12 births, rank #8,966
2015: 8 births, rank #11,835
20162016: 12 births, rank #8,875
2017: 11 births, rank #9,341
2018: 9 births, rank #10,545
2019: 9 births, rank #10,473
2020: 9 births, rank #10,250
20212021: 6 births, rank #13,464
2022: 12 births, rank #8,542
2023: 7 births, rank #12,197
2024: no US SSA record for this spelling
20252025: 7 births, rank #11,932
Glenna rose from #963 to #912 for girls between 1970 and 1971. Its highest annual birth count came in 1951, with 645 births.