Gleason

24,410 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gleason in the 2020 census, making it the 1,419th most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,200.

By the numbers

People: 24,410
Rank: 1,419th
How common: 1 in 12,200
Per 100,000: 8.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Glasáin (“descendant of Glasán”), a personal name which derives from a diminutive form of glas (“green, blue, grey”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Gleason

Jackie Gleason (1916–1987)American comedian and actor
Paul Gleason (1939–2006)American actor
Mary Pat Gleason (1950–2020)American actress
Andrew Gleason (1921–2008)American mathematician
Joanna Gleason (born 1950)Canadian actress and singer
Tim Gleason (born 1983)American ice hockey player
James Gleason (1882–1959)American actor
Henry Gleason (1882–1975)American ecologist

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

Surnames like Gleason

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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.