Glade

loc · Latin script

Meaning: OE *Glæd, the simplex of *Glæding and *Glædwine, or from ‘dweller in the glade’; first attested Willelmus filius Glade 1202 AssL

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɡleɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Glade is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • AIAnguilla
  • USUnited States
  • FIFinland

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

OE *Glæd, the simplex of *Glæding and *Glædwine, or from ‘dweller in the glade’; first attested Willelmus filius Glade 1202 AssL

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Glade 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.

  • nickname for a handsome man, from Middle Low German glad(de) ‘smooth’, ‘shining’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • topographic name for someone who lived in a glade. Middle English glade.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from an Old English personal name Glced.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • reduced form of McGlade.

    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)

19001920194019601980Coe Glade, b. 1900Glade Peterson, b. 1928Alain Glade, b. 1948Thomas Glade, b. 1964

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Glade
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,731
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#18,701
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#24,532
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—103#61,986
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—53#21,502
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—30#16,633
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202626—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—26#76,070
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202623—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—23#82,227
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200819#49,362
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200718#52,272

Reference works 5

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Glade mean, and where does it come from?
OE *Glæd, the simplex of *Glæding and *Glædwine, or from ‘dweller in the glade’; first attested Willelmus filius Glade 1202 AssL Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Glade?
A machine transcription gives /ɡleɪd/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Glade have the most bearers?
Glade is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Glade”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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