# Gluck (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/gluck/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,267 |
| US rank (2010) | 7,778 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 72,357 people |
| Change since 2000 | +17% (3,634 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the German surname Glück and Jewish surname (Yiddish גליק (glik)), both nouns meaning "luck." Compare Glick, Glueck.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gluck in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gluck in the United States and Austria.

## People named Gluck

- Griffin Gluck, American actor
- Alma Gluck, American singer (1884–1938)
- Will Gluck, American film director, screenwriter and producer
- Johann Ernst Glück, Baltic German writer and theologian (1654-1705)
- Wolfgang Glück, Austrian filmmaker (1929–2023)

## Similar surnames

Glick, Gulick, Glock, Glass, Giles, Gillis, Galicia, Glasgow, Glaze, Gallego, Gales, Gilles.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.