Glenda
Just 24 women in Poland carry this Germanic name, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. Most Poles have never met a Glenda. At its root it means "pure and good".
Glenda Pronunciation
Glenda is pronounced GLEN-dah (/ˈglɛnda/).
What Glenda means
Where Glenda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Glenda has Germanic roots, though it made its name in the English-speaking world. The name folds together two plain ideas, pure and good. The meaning stays simple. That plainness is part of why it reads warm rather than grand, a short name doing honest work.
The best-known bearer is Glenda Jackson, the British actress who won two Academy Awards for Women in Love and A Touch of Class. She later left the screen and served as a Labour MP for more than twenty years. Through her the name gained a public face, first in film and then in the House of Commons. Anyone called Glenda after the 1970s shared a first name with a household figure.
On a Polish class register, a Glenda would stand out among the Zuzannas and Antoninas, a foreign guest with Germanic bones and an English home. She has no Polish name-day of her own, no home-grown diminutive to soften her. What she keeps instead is that older pairing, pure and good.
How many people are named Glenda
1 in 939326 women in Poland is named Glenda. 24 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8765 among female names.
Glenda as a middle name
Glenda is a first name for 24 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5923rd, between Giri (2) and Glenkora (2).
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#5921 Ginewra2
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#5922 Giri2
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#5923 Glenda2
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#5924 Glenkora2
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#5925 Godysława2