Glaucus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: son of Minos and Pasiphae; son of
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡlawkuʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Glaucus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 14M
- USUnited States≈1 in 33M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4M (inferred from the name graph)
89 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son of Minos and Pasiphae; son of
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Glaucus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 89 | 1 in 2.4M | 89 | Glaucus | 38 |
| US United States | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 33M | — | Glaucus | 13 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Glaucus | 6 |
| FR France | — | — | 4 | — | — |
89 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Glaucus is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Lycian commander in Trojan War;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Sisyphus; sea god who courted
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Scylla
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, bright, sparkling, gleaming
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Glaucus of Nicopolisb. 100GRancient Greek epigrammatist
- Glaucus of Rhegionb. 500ITancient poet
- Glaucus of Carystusb. 600GRancient Greek boxer
- Glaucus of Chiosb. 800GRancient Greek sculptor and metalsmith
- Glafcos Cleridesb. 1919CYnot in their usual nameCypriot lawyer and politician (1919–2013), President of Cyprus from 1993 to 2003
- Glaucusancient Greek writer on the geography and antiquities of Arabia
- Glaucus of ArgosGRancient sculptor
- Glaukosnot in their usual nameancient Greek geographer
- Glaukosnot in their usual nameancient Greek sculptor
- Glaucusancient Greek physician (2nd century BCE)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 89 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 89 | #44,732 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 84 | #20,878 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 54 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 51 | #47,754 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 35 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 34 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 20 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Glaucus mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Minos and Pasiphae; son of Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Glaucus?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡlawkuʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Glaucus a male or female name?
- Glaucus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Glaucus?
- In the etymology graph, Glauco is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Glaucus have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 89 people named Glaucus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glaucus.
- Where is Glaucus most common?
- Glaucus is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Glaucus?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 89 people named Glaucus in 2022, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Glaucus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/glaucusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Glaucus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.