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The GLYNN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,210 3542 0.003 34
United States (1880 census) 2,436 2505 0.005 49
Change since 1880 +6774 -1037 -0.002 -15
Other Countries
Australia 749 2173 0.005 46
United Kingdom 3,437 1819 0.007 75
Top States for GLYNN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,125 727 0.018 177
New York 838 2128 0.004 44
California 745 3862 0.002 22
Florida 510 3861 0.003 32
Illinois 510 2416 0.004 41
Top States for GLYNN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,125 727 0.018 177
Connecticut 348 1165 0.010 102
New Hampshire 117 1618 0.009 95
Minnesota 354 1574 0.007 72
Alaska 42 1938 0.007 67

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

Classification and Origin of GLYNN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GLYNN 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 GLYNN 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 GLYNN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 571 6.2
White (Hispanic) 155 1.68
Mixed Race 121 1.31
Asian/Pacific 41 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.4
White (Caucasian) 8,285 89.96

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

Meaning of GLYNN in historical publications

GLYNN. A place In the parish of Gardiuham, co. Cornwall, the abode of " an ancient family of gentlemen of this name, who for many generations flourished there." Hals, in D. Gilbert's Cornwall, i. 171.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GLYNN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GLYNN.

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 GLYNN

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