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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

'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.

Meaning of GLEN in historical publications

1" GLEN. A common syllable in Celtic names of places, as Glendinning, Glendor, Glencaglis, Glenister, Glenfield, Glcnham, Glenuio, Glenuj', and Glenton.

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 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.

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

Potential typos for GLEN

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