Gleen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: To glisten; to gleam
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡəɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gleen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 134K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To glisten; to gleam.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gleen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Gleen | 45 |
| US United States | 234 | 1 in 1.4M | 434 | Gleen | 121 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Gleen | 11 |
| PE Peru | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Gleen | 21 |
| GH Ghana | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Gleen | 3 |
| CL Chile | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 250K | 2 | Gleen | 15 |
| CR Costa Rica | 38 | 1 in 134K | 38 | Gleen | 8 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Gleen 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 enm, alternative form of glewen (“to play music”)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 434 | #51,779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 320 | #59,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 237 | #80,131 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Gleen a male or female name?
- Gleen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Gleen mean, and where does it come from?
- To glisten; to gleam. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gleen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gleen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Gleen in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gleen.
- How common is the name Gleen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 234 people named Gleen in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gleen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gleenThe 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, “Gleen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.