The GLENN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	49,241	627	0.018	182
United States (1880 census)	12,278	484	0.025	246
Change since 1880	+36963	-143	-0.007	-64
Other Countries
Australia	748	2180	0.005	46
United Kingdom	2,184	2747	0.005	48

Top States for GLENN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	4,113	625	0.020	197
California	3,472	951	0.010	103
North Carolina	2,704	425	0.034	336
South Carolina	2,699	207	0.067	673
Florida	2,656	765	0.017	166
Top States for GLENN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	2,699	207	0.067	673
Alabama	2,273	298	0.051	511
Oklahoma	1,184	381	0.034	343
North Carolina	2,704	425	0.034	336
Arkansas	787	434	0.029	294

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

Classification and Origin of GLENN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	798	1.62
White (Hispanic)	793	1.61
Native American/Alaskan	295	0.6
Asian/Pacific	177	0.36
White (Caucasian)	31,337	63.64
Black/African American	15,846	32.18

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

Similar names to GLENN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GLENN.

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.