Glaser
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ‘glass-blower’ or ‘glazier’, from Middle High German or modern German as a Jewish name
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Glaser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 5.9K
- CZCzechia1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Glaser itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 397 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)‘glass-blower’ or ‘glazier’, from Middle High German or modern German as a Jewish name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Glaser is read
(measured from records)Glaser is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English70%
‘glass-blower’ or ‘glazier’, from Middle High German or modern German as a Jewish name
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German17%
glazier (of male or unspecified sex)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Berufsname zu mhd. glas(er) 'Glasmacher, Glaser'; die Karte zeigt Tonvokal-Varianten mit a/ä/e (Glaser, Gläser, Gleser).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Berufsname zu Glas 'glass'; die Karte zeigt Tonvokal-Varianten a/ä/e und Schreibvarianten des Namens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Glaser 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #407 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Glaser | 168 |
| US United States | — | 10,235 | 1 in 33K | 10K | Glaser | 397 |
| AT Austria | #362 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Glaser | 72 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Glaser | 94 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,109as Glazer | 1 in 35K | 561 | Glaser | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 479 | 1 in 18K | 479 | Glaser | 45 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Glaser | 17 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 104as Glazer | 1 in 20K | 104 | — | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Glaser is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
occupational name for a glass blower or glazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German glas ‘glass’. This name is widespread throughout central Europe.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
occupational name for a glass blower or glazier, from the German word Glaser.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Eduard Glaserb. 1855CZAustrian archaeologist (1855–1908)
- Vaughan Glaserb. 1872USAmerican film actor (1872–1958)
- Ernst Glaserb. 1904NOGerman / Norwegian violinist (1904–1979)
- Loki Schmidtb. 1919DEnot in their usual nameGerman environmentalist (1919–2010)
- Denise Glaserb. 1920FRFrench television presenter
- Donald Arthur Glaserb. 1926USAmerican physicist and neurobiologist (1926–2013)
- Milton Glaserb. 1929USAmerican graphic designer (1929–2020)
- Paul Michael Glaserb. 1943USAmerican actor and director
- Jon Glaserb. 1968USAmerican actor
- Nikki Glaserb. 1984USAmerican comedian (born 1984)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,199 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,493 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.7K | #3,579 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 479 | #2,715 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 116 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 116 | #26,537 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 95 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 95 | #30,774 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 87 | #4,960 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Glaser mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘glass-blower’ or ‘glazier’, from Middle High German or modern German as a Jewish name Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Glaser have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Glaser in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glaser.
- How common is the name Glaser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,235 people named Glaser in 2010, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Glaser compared with other names?
- In Germany, Glaser is the 407th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/glaserThe 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, “Glaser” — the 407th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.