How common is the surname Glidewell?

3,563 people in the United States had the surname Glidewell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,653 Americans. It ranked 9,161st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Glidewell?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Glidewell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Glidewell getting more or less common?

More common. 3,376 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,563 in 2010, up 5.5%.

The surname Glidewell

A surname, carried by 3,563 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G434

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

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,563 people named Glidewell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 86,653 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,376.

#9,161

rank among US surnames

3,563

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+5.5%

change since 2000 (was #8,916)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,155	Tolle	3,564	86,629
#9,161	Tincher	3,563	86,653
#9,164	Boos	3,562	86,678
#9,165	Caston	3,561	86,702

Who is named Glidewell

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

95% of people named Glidewell identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Two or more races 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Glidewell

Gledhill

Glidewell has the Soundex code G434, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G434.

Questions

How common is the surname Glidewell?: 3,563 people in the United States had the surname Glidewell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,653 Americans. It ranked 9,161st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Glidewell?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Glidewell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Glidewell getting more or less common?: More common. 3,376 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,563 in 2010, up 5.5%.