Entry № 3717 · Scottish origin

Glenn Glenn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GLEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Valley (iconic Glenn Close - 3x Tony + 8x Oscar noms)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "valley (iconic glenn close - 3x tony + 8x oscar noms)".

Glenn is from the Scottish Gaelic gleann (valley). Princess Glenn — Scottish heritage naming.

Valley (iconic Glenn Close - 3x Tony + 8x Oscar noms) — a Scottish name.

The name in its native script.

Glenn
Transliteration
Glenn
Pronunciation
/ ɡlɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Glenn stands.

Glenn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Glenns before her.

Real people
Glenn Close
Iconic American actress + 3x Tony + 3x Emmy + 8 Oscar noms.
born 1947
In fiction
Glenn
Scottish for valley.

Names connected to Glenn.

The number behind Glenn.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Glenn reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.