Etymology

Proper noun

1. . Popular during the first half of the 20th century.

Quotations

• 1835 Jacobus Flax, The Knickerbocker, October 1835, page 291:

  Miss Flax, the little thin sister, and Miss Gloria, the stout able-bodied sister, lifted up their hands and eyes in horror at the mere hint of a wet nurse.

• 1898 George Bernard Shaw, You Never Can Tell, Act II:

  Crampton. - - - What's your name? I mean your pet name. They can't very well call you Sophronia.

  Gloria. Sophronia! My name is Gloria. I am always called by it.

  Crampton. Your name is Sophronia, girl: you were called after your aunt Sophronia, my sister: she gave you your first Bible with your name written in it.

  Gloria: Then my mother gave me a new name.