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The GLAD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,112 21804 0 4
United States (1880 census) 76 37690 0 2
Change since 1880 +1036 +15886 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 10 88865 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GLAD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 181 3577 0.004 37
Utah 127 2224 0.006 57
Illinois 98 13008 0.001 8
California 88 24781 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 71 19142 0.001 6
Top States for GLAD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 127 2224 0.006 57
Minnesota 181 3577 0.004 37
Wisconsin 59 14420 0.001 11
Rhode Island 10 13112 0.001 10
Washington 51 13234 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of GLAD

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GLAD surname.

Ethnic distribution of GLAD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 15 1.35
Mixed Race 14 1.26
Native American/Alaskan 12 1.08
White (Caucasian) 1,058 95.14
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

GLAD is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GLAD in historical publications

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

Similar names to GLAD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GLAD.

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 GLAD

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