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Interesting that it's found favour with African immigrants (I'm impressed, having taught in a Chinese school for a year, that the Chinese can pronounce it at all!) because the youngest Gladys I know, by several decades, is an immigrant from the DR Congo. She is a very nice girl, in her early 20s now I suppose, with remarkable artistic talent and grew up speaking French and a local language (which she's forgotten. There's a video of her as a 3-year-old chatting to her grandparents in a language unknown to her adult self), so the associations are good, but not good enough.

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As far as elderly adult Gladyses are concerned, when I was growing up I knew a Scot and a Yorkshirewoman, both living in the same South African street of about a dozen houses. Not just a Welsh preference, clearly.