Glód

surname · Latin script

Glód is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from gidd ‘hunger’, possibly applied as a nickname for someone who was very thin or, ironically, for someone who was excessively fat.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 772K(measured from records)
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 103K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 241K

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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈990 people, est.

Sources
157 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Glod in US United States, DE Germany, IT Italy and 3 more.

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)

from gidd ‘hunger’, possibly applied as a nickname for someone who was very thin or, ironically, for someone who was excessively fat.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Glód 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.

Where Glód is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈990 est.≈1 in 103K—Glod1
US United States4311 in 772K431Glod157
DZ Algeria≈180 est.≈1 in 241K—Glod1
DE Germany≈160 est.≈1 in 492K—Glod40
FR France≈160 est.≈1 in 421K29——
IT Italy≈150 est.≈1 in 422K—Glod3
NO Norway141 in 391K14Glod2

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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Glód is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Glod

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Glód is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In zlw-slv, hunger

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Glód under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Glód mean, and where does it come from?
from gidd ‘hunger’, possibly applied as a nickname for someone who was very thin or, ironically, for someone who was excessively fat. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Glód have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 989 people named Glód in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glod.
How common is the name Glód?
In the United States, the national register counted 431 people named Glód in 2010, about 1 in 772 thousand residents.

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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, “Glód”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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