Gleser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Glaser; also from ecclesia 'church'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/xleseɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Gleser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 210K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 360Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 1.9M
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 211K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant of Glaser; also from ecclesia 'church'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gleser is found
(measured from records)Gleser 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | Gleser | 45 |
| US United States | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Gleser | 75 |
| AR Argentina | 24 | 1 in 1.9M | 24 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Gleser | 7 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 211K | listed | — | 3 |
| IL Israel | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Gleser | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Gleser 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 German, Berufsname zu Glas/Glaser; die Karte zeigt Haupttonvokalismus mit a, ä und e in der Schreibvarianz. Belegt mit 192 Trägern; Variantencluster: Glaser, Gläser, Gleser.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. glasære; Nebenform mit e statt a/ä zur Dokumentation der Vokalvarianz.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Beispiel für a/ä/e-Vokalvariation; 192 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- Hilda Gleserb. 1893EEEstonian actress and theatre director (1893-1932)
- R. V. Glezerb. 1914RUnot in their usual nameRussian musicologist (1914-1985)
- Goldine Gleserb. 1915USAmerican psychologist and statistician (1915-2004)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gleser mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Glaser; also from ecclesia 'church' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Gleser?
- In Spanish /xleseɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gleser?
- Mondonomo estimates about 234 people named Gleser in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gleser. After it come United States, Argentina, Canada and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gleser?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 24 people named Gleser, about 1 in 1.9 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/gleserThe 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, “Gleser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.