Glasser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A person who applies fibreglass and resin to a surfboard during its manufacture (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Glasser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 4,221 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CACanada≈1 in 78Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 79K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 120Kfew records
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 Glasser itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
4,221 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gläßer in DE Germany.
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)A person who applies fibreglass and resin to a surfboard during its manufacture.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Glasser is found
(measured from records)Glasser 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 | 4,221 | 1 in 79K | 4.2K | Glasser | 327 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Gläßer | 52 |
| CA Canada | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Glasser | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 142K | listed | Glasser | 74 |
| FR France | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 144K | 48 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Glasser | 59 |
| AT Austria | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Glasser | 15 |
4,221 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; the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register; 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)Glasser 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 English, different form of Glaser
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)- William Glasserb. 1925USAmerican psychiatrist (1925–2013)
- Seymore Buttsb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic filmmaker
- Phillip Glasserb. 1978USAmerican actor and film producer
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Glasser mean, and where does it come from?
- A person who applies fibreglass and resin to a surfboard during its manufacture. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Glasser?
- In the etymology graph, Shaper is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Glasser?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Glasser, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glasser. After it come Germany, Canada, United Kingdom and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Glasser?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,221 people named Glasser in 2010, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/glasserThe 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, “Glasser” — ranked 7702nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.