How common is the surname Gleeson?

2,919 people in the United States had the surname Gleeson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,771 Americans. It ranked 10,907th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gleeson?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gleeson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Gleeson?

Gleeson is /ˈɡliː.sən/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Gleeson getting more or less common?

More common. 2,855 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,919 in 2010, up 2.2%.

The surname Gleeson

A surname, carried by 2,919 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈɡliː.sən/ 2 syllables Soundex G425

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gleeson is more common than 93.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,919 people named Gleeson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,771 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,855.

#10,907

rank among US surnames

2,919

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+2.2%

change since 2000 (was #10,336)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,900	Mozingo	2,921	105,699
#10,903	Wigley	2,920	105,735
#10,907	Gleeson	2,919	105,771
#10,910	Goodyear	2,918	105,807
#10,912	Edelstein	2,917	105,844
#10,914	Kinchen	2,916	105,880

Who is named Gleeson

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

93% of people named Gleeson identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gleeson

Gleeson has the Soundex code G425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G425.

Questions

How common is the surname Gleeson?: 2,919 people in the United States had the surname Gleeson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,771 Americans. It ranked 10,907th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gleeson?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gleeson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Gleeson?: Gleeson is /ˈɡliː.sən/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Gleeson getting more or less common?: More common. 2,855 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,919 in 2010, up 2.2%.