Glass

40,133 people in the United States were counted with the surname Glass in the 2020 census, making it the 843rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,448.

By the numbers

People: 40,133
Rank: 843rd
How common: 1 in 7,448
Per 100,000: 13.4

Where the name comes from

As an English, Jewish and German surname, from the noun glass.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Glass described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 74.1%
Black, not Hispanic 17.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Glass

Philip Glass (born 1937)American composer
Hugh Glass (1783–1833)American fur trapper and frontiersman
Ron Glass (1945–2016)American actor
Alice Glass (born 1988)Canadian electronic music singer
Alisha Glass (born 1988)American volleyball player
Harry Glaß (1930–1997)East German ski jumper
Carter Glass (1858–1946)American politician
Bernhard Glass (born 1957)East German luger

People named Glass with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Glass

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.