The GLASS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	40,724	770	0.015	151
United States (1880 census)	9,491	635	0.019	190
Change since 1880	+31233	-135	-0.004	-39
Other Countries
Australia	1,185	1393	0.007	72
United Kingdom	4,445	1410	0.01	97

Top States for GLASS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,024	853	0.015	145
California	2,861	1139	0.008	84
Florida	2,801	710	0.018	175
Pennsylvania	2,416	497	0.020	197
Alabama	2,147	310	0.048	483
Top States for GLASS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	2,147	310	0.048	483
Kentucky	1,498	392	0.037	371
Virginia	1,838	450	0.026	260
Tennessee	1,464	595	0.026	257
Georgia	2,098	489	0.026	256

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GLASS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	599	1.47
Mixed Race	578	1.42
Native American/Alaskan	346	0.85
Asian/Pacific	163	0.4
White (Caucasian)	32,331	79.39
Black/African American	6,703	16.46

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

Similar names to GLASS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GLASS.

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.