About the name Gladis
Gladis belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Gladis first appears in Social Security records in 1898. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #877 in 1909, and in 2024 10 babies received the name — 3,060 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.