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Glenys Glenys — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GLEN-iss /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Holy / pure"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "holy / pure".

Glenys is from the Welsh Glenys — holy, pure, blessed from Welsh glân (pure, holy). Glenys is one of the Welsh feminine names — central to traditional Welsh heritage. Welsh feminine name reflecting Celtic Indigenous heritage.

Holy / pure (Welsh).

The name in its native script.

Glenys
Transliteration
Glenys
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡlɛ.nɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Glenys stands.

Glenys 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.

Glenyss before her.

Real people
Glenys Kinnock
Welsh-British politician + MEP for Wales 1994-2009 + UK Minister for Africa 2009-2010.
1944 – 2023
In fiction
Glenys
Welsh holy + pure.

Names connected to Glenys.

The number behind Glenys.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Glenys reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.