How common is the surname Gladstone?

2,426 people in the United States had the surname Gladstone in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 127,265 Americans. It ranked 12,724th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Gladstone?

Lily Gladstone, American actress (born 1986), followed by John Hall Gladstone.

Where is the surname Gladstone most common?

Wikidata records people named Gladstone in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

How do you pronounce Gladstone?

Gladstone is /ˈɡlædstən/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Gladstone getting more or less common?

More common. 2,391 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,426 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Gladstone

An English place surname, carried by 2,426 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈɡlædstən/ 2 syllables Soundex G432

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gladstone is more common than 92.2% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English glæd (“shining”) + stān (“stone”).

Gladstone is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,426 people named Gladstone in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 127,265 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,391.

#12,724

rank among US surnames

2,426

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #11,986)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,715	Duclos	2,428	127,160
#12,720	Marlatt	2,427	127,213
#12,724	Palmeri	2,426	127,265
#12,729	McLennan	2,425	127,318
#12,732	Nishimura	2,424	127,370

Who is named Gladstone

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

89% of people named Gladstone identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.2%
Two or more races 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Gladstones

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Lily Gladstone
American actress (born 1986)
John Hall Gladstone
British chemist (1827-1902)

Notable Gladstones come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Gledstanes
Gledstone

Surnames that sound like Gladstone

Gladstone has the Soundex code G432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G432.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Gladstone come from?: From Old English glæd (“shining”) + stān (“stone”).
How common is the surname Gladstone?: 2,426 people in the United States had the surname Gladstone in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 127,265 Americans. It ranked 12,724th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gladstone?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Gladstone identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Gladstone?: Lily Gladstone, American actress (born 1986), followed by John Hall Gladstone.
Where is the surname Gladstone most common?: Wikidata records people named Gladstone in the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Gladstone?: Gladstone is /ˈɡlædstən/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Gladstone?: Gladstone is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Gladstone getting more or less common?: More common. 2,391 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,426 in 2010, up 1.5%.
What are other spellings of Gladstone?: Gledstanes and Gledstone.