Glaß
surname · Latin script
Glaß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 8Kas Glass(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 8.7Kas Glass
- DEGermany≈1 in 25Kas Glass
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 Glaß itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 469 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 named Glass, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Glass
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Glass in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 5 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Glaß 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Glass | 14 |
| US United States | #861 | 41,802as Glass | 1 in 8K | 42K | Glass | 469 |
| GB United Kingdom | #915 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | listed | Glass | 194 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Glass | 16 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Glass | 126 |
| NZ New Zealand | #826 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Glass | 72 |
| IE Ireland | #907 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Glass | 36 |
| JM Jamaica | #258 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Glass | 3 |
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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hugh Glassb. 1783USAmerican fur trapper and frontiersman
- Carter Glassb. 1858USAmerican politician (1858–1946)
- Ned Glassb. 1906USAmerican actor (1906-1984)
- Philip Glassb. 1937USAmerican composer (born 1937)
- Ron Glassb. 1945USAmerican actor (1945-2016)
- Julia Glassb. 1956USNovelist, journalist, editor
- Ira Glassb. 1959USAmerican radio personality
- Ann-Gisel Glassb. 1964FRFrench actress
- Noah Glassb. 1981USAmerican technology entrepreneur
- Caitlin Glassb. 1981USAmerican voice actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Glaß have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Glass in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Glaß most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Glaß itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 8.0 thousand people named Glass.
- How common is the name Glaß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 41,802 people named Glass in 2010, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Glaß compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Glaß is the 258th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Glaß?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gla%C3%9FThe 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, “Glaß” — the 258th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.