Fun Facts About the Name Gloriana
- 802 babies named Gloriana: U.S. records list 802 babies given the name Gloriana from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Gloriana Mean?
Gloriana is a feminine name built on the Latin noun gloria, meaning "glory," "fame," or "renown." It adds the feminine ending -ana, the same element found in names such as Juliana (from Julius) and Mariana (from Maria). The literal sense is therefore "of glory" or "glorious."
The name is Latin in origin rather than biblical or saintly: it is not the name of a figure in Scripture or an early Christian martyr. It is closely related to Gloria, and can be understood as an extended, more ornamental form of it, though as a personal name Gloriana has a strongly literary flavor while Gloria is the plainer form. The meaning is a straightforward comment on glory; there is no competing etymology of substance.
Gloriana Name History & Origins
Gloriana is best known from Edmund Spenser's allegorical poem The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), where Gloriana is the Faerie Queene whom the knight Arthur seeks, and who stands for Queen Elizabeth I. In Elizabethan England the queen was also celebrated under the name Gloriana in verse and pageantry, so the name carried a political and celebratory charge as well as a poetic one. Whether Spenser coined the form or adopted it from usage already in circulation is not certain; the -ana ending was productive enough in Latin-derived names that Gloriana fit an existing pattern.
The name reappears in later English culture. Benjamin Britten's opera Gloriana (1953), written for the coronation of Elizabeth II, took Elizabeth I as its subject and used the name as its title. Gloriana has also been used as a given name, but its most familiar appearances remain literary and musical rather than everyday. It is not an ancient Roman name, and no early documented bearer is known; its recorded life in English begins with the Elizabethan period.
How Popular is the Name Gloriana?
Gloriana has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2018. Its best rank was #3,166 in 1930.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,615 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 2024 | #6,222 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 2023 | #5,450 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2022 | #4,146 | 35 | 0.0021% |
| 2021 | #5,004 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2020 | #4,292 | 32 | 0.0020% |
| 2019 | #4,811 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 2018 | #3,950 | 37 | 0.0022% |
| 2017 | #4,519 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 2016 | #7,014 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2015 | #4,636 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 2014 | #4,694 | 30 | 0.0017% |
| 2013 | #4,461 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 2012 | #5,013 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2011 | #6,010 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2010 | #7,649 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2009 | #7,456 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2008 | #11,933 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2007 | #9,759 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #9,502 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2005 | #8,041 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2004 | #17,019 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #6,697 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2002 | #8,465 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2001 | #7,455 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2000 | #6,929 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1999 | #7,889 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1998 | #7,250 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1997 | #8,565 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1996 | #10,975 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1995 | #5,519 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 1994 | #10,957 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1993 | #14,274 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #10,865 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1991 | #7,586 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1990 | #10,585 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1989 | #11,318 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #10,816 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #9,110 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1986 | #9,954 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1984 | #7,624 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1981 | #8,416 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1979 | #9,371 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1978 | #6,572 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1977 | #7,803 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1976 | #7,561 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1974 | #8,029 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1972 | #6,151 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1971 | #8,756 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1970 | #7,370 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1967 | #5,147 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1959 | #6,592 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1957 | #5,650 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1956 | #6,288 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1954 | #5,364 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1949 | #5,531 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1938 | #3,290 | 8 | 0.0007% |
| 1936 | #4,468 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1930 | #3,166 | 9 | 0.0008% |
| 1929 | #3,507 | 8 | 0.0007% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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