Glasse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘glass-blower’ or ‘glazier’; (ii) from Gaelic glas ‘grey-green’; (iii) Jewish name, either ‘glass-blower’, ‘glazier’, or invented from German Glass ‘glass’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɟʎæs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Glasse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.2M(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 622K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 668K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 622K (inferred from the name graph)
104 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
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)
- Gaelicglas(measured from records)
- German Glass‘glass’(measured from records)
(i) ‘glass-blower’ or ‘glazier’; (ii) from Gaelic glas ‘grey-green’; (iii) Jewish name, either ‘glass-blower’, ‘glazier’, or invented from German Glass ‘glass’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Glasse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 104 | 1 in 3.2M | 115 | Glasse | 101 |
| FR France | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 936K | 4 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Glasse | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Glasse | 54 |
| MA Morocco | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 707K | — | Glasse | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 668K | — | Glasse | 15 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 622K | — | Glasse | 1 |
104 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Glasse 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 English, Obsolete spelling of glass.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hannah Glasseb. 1708GBBritish cookery writer (1708-1770)
- John Glasseb. 1730GBminor Augustan poet
- Samuel Glasseb. 1735Church of England clergyman
- Francis Glasseb. 1784GBsoldier, author and slave owner
- Frederick Henry Hastings Glasseb. 1806British Royal Navy officer, captain in 1846 (1806-?)
- John Glasseb. 1848GBChurch of Scotland minister and activist (1848-1918)
- Fred Glasseb. 1889NZNew Zealand local politician (1889-1977)
- Francis Philip Glassedied 1837
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 115 | #134,929 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 104 | #156,044 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 9 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #48,497 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 4 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
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 Glasse mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘glass-blower’ or ‘glazier’; (ii) from Gaelic glas ‘grey-green’; (iii) Jewish name, either ‘glass-blower’, ‘glazier’, or invented from German Glass ‘glass’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Glasse?
- A machine transcription gives /ɟʎæs/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Glasse?
- In the etymology graph, Glass is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Glasse have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 104 people named Glasse, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glasse.
- How common is the name Glasse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 104 people named Glasse in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/glasseThe 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, “Glasse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.