How common is the surname Glendenning?

1,272 people in the United States had the surname Glendenning in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 242,724 Americans. It ranked 20,770th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Glendenning getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,281 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,272 in 2010, down 0.7%.

The surname Glendenning

A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 1,272 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex G453

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Glendenning is more common than 87.2% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Habitational surname from a minor place in Dumfries, Scotland, perhaps from Scottish Gaelic gleann (“mountain valley, glen”) + dùn (“fortress”) + fionn (“white”).

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

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,272 people named Glendenning in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 242,724 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,281.

#20,770

rank among US surnames

1,272

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.7%

change since 2000 (was #19,503)

Who is named Glendenning

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

94% of people named Glendenning identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Clendenning
Glendening

Glendenning has the Soundex code G453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G453.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Glendenning come from?: Habitational surname from a minor place in Dumfries, Scotland, perhaps from Scottish Gaelic gleann (“mountain valley, glen”) + dùn (“fortress”) + fionn (“white”).
How common is the surname Glendenning?: 1,272 people in the United States had the surname Glendenning in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 242,724 Americans. It ranked 20,770th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Glendenning?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Glendenning identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Glendenning?: Glendenning is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Glendenning getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,281 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,272 in 2010, down 0.7%.
What are other spellings of Glendenning?: Clendenning and Glendening.