How common is the surname Glazier?

3,612 people in the United States had the surname Glazier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,478 Americans. It ranked 9,045th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Glazier?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Glazier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Glazier getting more or less common?

More common. 3,342 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,612 in 2010, up 8.1%.

The surname Glazier

An occupational surname, carried by 3,612 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex G426

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Glazier is more common than 94.4% of them.

Origin

A surname originating as an occupation for a glazier.

Glazier is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,612 people named Glazier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 85,478 Americans. That is up 8.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,342.

#9,045

rank among US surnames

3,612

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+8.1%

change since 2000 (was #8,994)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,037	Delay	3,616	85,383
#9,038	Everitt	3,615	85,407
#9,043	Campion	3,614	85,430
#9,045	Lieu	3,612	85,478
#9,048	Castelan	3,611	85,501
#9,050	Linehan	3,610	85,525
#9,054	Borjas	3,609	85,549

Who is named Glazier

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

93% of people named Glazier identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Glazier

Glazier has the Soundex code G426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G426.

Questions

How common is the surname Glazier?: 3,612 people in the United States had the surname Glazier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,478 Americans. It ranked 9,045th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Glazier?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Glazier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Glazier?: Glazier is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Glazier getting more or less common?: More common. 3,342 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,612 in 2010, up 8.1%.