Gloeckner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a bell-ringer or sexton
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɫoʊknɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gloeckner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 19Kas Glöckner(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 718Kas Glockner
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 3.7K
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 Gloeckner 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 named Glöckner, est.
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Glockner in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AT Austria and 2 more and Glöckner 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)
occupational name for a bell-ringer or sexton. Middle High German glockencere. See also Glockner.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gloeckner 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 | #950 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Glöckner | 89 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Gloeckner | 1 |
| US United States | — | 463as Glockner | 1 in 718K | 471 | Glockner | 186 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Gloeckner | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 548K | — | Glockner | 28 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Glockner | 20 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Glockner | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Glockner | 1 |
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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lorry Gloecknerb. 1956CAprofessional ice hockey player
- Phoebe Gloecknerb. 1960USAmerican cartoonist, illustrator, painter, novelist
- Christian Johannes Gloecknerb. 1972DEresearcher
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 471 | #48,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 440 | #48,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 428 | #46,758 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Gloeckner come from?
- occupational name for a bell-ringer or sexton. Middle High German glockencere. See also Glockner. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gloeckner?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɫoʊknɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gloeckner mean?
- Recorded meaning: occupational name for a bell-ringer or sexton.
- In which country does Gloeckner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Glöckner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gloeckner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 463 people named Glockner in 2010, about 1 in 718 thousand residents.
- How common is Gloeckner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Gloeckner is the 950th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gloecknerThe 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, “Gloeckner” — the 950th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.