Gledhill
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Gledhill, Yorkshire, ‘kite-hill’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Gledhill is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,371 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Gledhill is also written Гледхилл in Cyrillic.
- USUnited States1 in 243K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
- ESSpain1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 243K (inferred from the name graph)
1,371 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gledhill in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)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)person from Gledhill, Yorkshire, ‘kite-hill’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gledhill is found
(measured from records)Gledhill 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 | 1,371 | 1 in 243K | 1.4K | Gledhill | 4 |
| ES Spain | 38 | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 12 | 1 in 3.2M | 9 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
1,371 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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)Gledhill is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Gledhill (West Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Adam de Gledehyll 1277 Wak (Yorkshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, habitational name from Gledhill, a place in West Yorkshire, named from Old English gleoda ‘kite’ + hyll ‘hill’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Yorks., so called from OE gleoda kite (see Gleed) + hyll Hill. Vars.: Gledall, Gleadell, Gleadle, Gladhill. Gledstane see Gladstone
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)- Keith Gledhillb. 1911USUS tennis player (1911-1999)
- Nicholas Gledhillb. 1975AUAustralian actor
- Mindy Gledhillb. 1981USsinger and songwriter
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gledhill mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Gledhill, Yorkshire, ‘kite-hill’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gledhill?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Gledhill, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gledhill. After it come Spain, Poland, Switzerland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gledhill most common?
- Gledhill is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 243 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gledhill?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,371 people named Gledhill in 2010, about 1 in 243 thousand 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/gledhillThe 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, “Gledhill” — ranked 18775th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.