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The GLENN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 49,241 627 0.018 182
United States (1880 census) 12,278 484 0.025 246
Change since 1880 +36963 -143 -0.007 -64
Other Countries
Australia 748 2180 0.005 46
United Kingdom 2,184 2747 0.005 48
Top States for GLENN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 4,113 625 0.020 197
California 3,472 951 0.010 103
North Carolina 2,704 425 0.034 336
South Carolina 2,699 207 0.067 673
Florida 2,656 765 0.017 166
Top States for GLENN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 2,699 207 0.067 673
Alabama 2,273 298 0.051 511
Oklahoma 1,184 381 0.034 343
North Carolina 2,704 425 0.034 336
Arkansas 787 434 0.029 294

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GLENN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GLENN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GLENN in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GLENN by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GLENN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GLENN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GLENN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GLENN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 798 1.62
White (Hispanic) 793 1.61
Native American/Alaskan 295 0.6
Asian/Pacific 177 0.36
White (Caucasian) 31,337 63.64
Black/African American 15,846 32.18

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GLENN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GLENN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GLENN.

Similar names to GLENN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GLENN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GLENN

The following words are slight variants of GLENN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.