What Does The Name Gloria Mean?
Glory — sometimes glory to God. The name has Latin roots. The first recorded usage of Gloria was in an American novel by the same name, published in 1891. The author was an extremely popular novelist, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899). Southworth was arguably the most popular American fiction writer of her era, whose prolific, influential and incredibly successful works often touched on themes related to the plight of women and slaves. The name Gloria was picked up and used again George Bernard Shaw’s play (1898) You Never Can Tell. The name Gloriana was previously used in English to refer to Queen Elizabeth I. Gloria is now a popular girl’s name in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, too.
