Glynn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person who lives in a valley; (ii) different form of Glen (i)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines, 2025
Glynn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 4.7K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 395 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
9,501 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) person who lives in a valley; (ii) different form of Glen (i)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Glynn 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 | — | 9,501 | 1 in 35K | 9.5K | Glynn | 395 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 3 | Glynn | 214 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 3 | Glynn | 126 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Glynn | 117 |
| IE Ireland | #343 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Glynn | 115 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Glynn | 47 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 79 | 1 in 1.3K | 79 | — | 1 |
9,501 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)Glynn is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Welsh glyn, Cornish glin, or a habitational name from a place named with this word. Morgan proposes Glynllifon in Caernarfon as a probably source of the Welsh surname.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
reduced form of Gaelic Mag Fhloinn (see McGlynn).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, from Glynllifon, Caernarfonshire
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In kw, glen
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- James Glynnb. 1800US Navy officer (1800–1871)
- Martin H. Glynnb. 1871USAmerican politician (1871-1924)
- Carlin Glynnb. 1940USAmerican singer and actress
- Ed Glynnb. 1953USAmerican baseball player
- Kathleen Glynnb. 1958USAmerican film producer
- Alan Glynnb. 1960IEIrish writer
- Brian Glynnb. 1967CACanadian ice hockey player
- Tamara Glynnb. 1968USAmerican actress
- Ryan Glynnb. 1974USAmerican baseball player
- Gruffudd Glynnot in their usual nameWelsh actor
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)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.5K | #3,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.3K | #3,715 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.2K | #3,542 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 79 | #183 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Glynn mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person who lives in a valley; (ii) different form of Glen (i) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Glynn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.5 thousand people named Glynn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glynn.
- Where is Glynn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Glynn is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Glynn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,501 people named Glynn in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Glynn compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Glynn is the 343rd most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/glynnThe 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, “Glynn” — the 343rd most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.