Glaise
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Glaise is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: clay.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9M (inferred from the name graph)
4 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
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)
clay
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Glaise 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.
4 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Glaise 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.
In Scottish Gaelic, genitive singular of glas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, inflection of glas:
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 91 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 18 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #116,959 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Glaise mean, and where does it come from?
- clay Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Glaise?
- In the etymology graph, Clay and Klei are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Glaise have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 4 people named Glaise, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Glaise most common?
- Glaise is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Glaise?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 4 people named Glaise in 2008, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/glaiseThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Glaise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.