Entry № 3721 · Latin origin

Gloria Gloria — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GLOR-ee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Glory (Gloria Steinem, Gloria Estefan, Gloria Anzaldúa)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "glory (gloria steinem, gloria estefan, gloria anzaldúa)".

Gloria is from the Latin gloria (glory, fame, renown). Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) — Chicana feminist theorist; Borderlands/La Frontera (1987) is to queer Latina studies.

Glory (Gloria Steinem, Gloria Estefan, Gloria Anzaldúa) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Gloria
Transliteration
Gloria
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡlɔːr.i.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gloria stands.

Gloria 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.

Glorias before her.

Real people
Gloria Steinem
American journalist and feminist.
born 1934
Gloria Anzaldúa
Chicana feminist theorist.
1942 – 2004
Gloria Estefan
Cuban-American singer.
born 1957
In fiction
Gloria
John Cassavetes's Gloria.
1980

Names connected to Gloria.

The number behind Gloria.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gloria reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.