The GLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,635	11070	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	1,629	3566	0.003	33
Change since 1880	+1006	-7504	-0.002	-23
Other Countries
Australia	665	2426	0.004	41
United Kingdom	3,358	1855	0.007	73

Top States for GLEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	313	8076	0.001	9
New York	192	9328	0.001	10
Florida	190	9232	0.001	12
Texas	167	9885	0.001	8
Illinois	150	8196	0.001	12
Top States for GLEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alaska	14	6432	0.002	22
Washington	116	5925	0.002	20
South Carolina	74	5469	0.002	18
Montana	16	8305	0.002	18
North Dakota	11	9166	0.002	17

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

Classification and Origin of GLEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	599	22.73
White (Hispanic)	116	4.4
Mixed Race	47	1.78
Asian/Pacific	42	1.59
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.49
White (Caucasian)	1,818	68.99

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

Similar names to GLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GLEN.

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.