Glenn

At the 2020 census, 48,549 Americans bore the surname Glenn — 686th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,157.

By the numbers

People: 48,549
Rank: 686th
How common: 1 in 6,157
Per 100,000: 16.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 59.0%
Black, not Hispanic 31.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Glenn

John Glenn (1921–2016)American astronaut and politician
Scott Glenn (born 1941)American actor
Amber Glenn (born 1999)American figure skater
Kimiko Glenn (born 1989)American actress
Pierre-William Glenn (1943–2024)French cinematographer
Roy Glenn (1914–1971)American actor
Tyree Glenn (1912–1974)American recording artist; trombonist

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

Surnames like Glenn

Also a first name

Glenn has been given to 250,778 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1962. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.