Gleason
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gleason is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Irish Gaelic Ó Glasdin, literally ‘little grey-green one’.
- USUnited States1 in 13K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gleason 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
25,416 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
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)
from Irish Gaelic Ó Glasdin, literally ‘little grey-green one’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gleason 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 | 25,416 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Gleason | 28 |
| ES Spain | 49as Gleeson | 1 in 1M | 49 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 22as Gleeson | 1 in 464K | 22 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 20as Gleeson | 1 in 1.9M | 11 | Gleason | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 6as Gleeson | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
25,416 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Gleason 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.
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Glasain, from a diminutive of glas ‘green’, ‘blue’, ‘gray’.
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)
- Kate Gleasonb. 1865USAmerican engineer and businesswoman (1865–1933)
- James Gleasonb. 1882USAmerican actor (1882-1959)
- Henry Gleasonb. 1882USAmerican ecologist (1882-1975)
- Russell Gleasonb. 1907USAmerican actor (1907-1945)
- Jackie Gleasonb. 1916USAmerican comedian and actor (1916–1987)
- Andrew Gleasonb. 1921USAmerican mathematician (1921-2008)
- Paul Gleasonb. 1939USAmerican actor (1939–2006)
- Linda Millerb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican film and television actress
- Joanna Gleasonb. 1950CACanadian actress and singer
- Mary Pat Gleasonb. 1950USAmerican actress (1950–2020)
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 25K | #1,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 25K | #1,293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 24K | #1,419 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,296 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #52,082 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #332,235 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Gleason mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic Ó Glasdin, literally ‘little grey-green one’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Gleason have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Gleason, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gleason.
- Where is Gleason most common?
- Gleason is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gleason?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,416 people named Gleason in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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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, “Gleason”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.