How common is the surname Gluck?

4,267 people in the United States had the surname Gluck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,357 Americans. It ranked 7,778th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gluck?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gluck identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Gluck?

Griffin Gluck, American actor, followed by Alma Gluck.

Where is the surname Gluck most common?

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

Is the surname Gluck getting more or less common?

More common. 3,634 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,267 in 2010, up 17%.

The surname Gluck

A surname, carried by 4,267 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex G420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gluck is more common than 95.2% of them.

Origin

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,267 people named Gluck in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 72,357 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,634.

#7,778

rank among US surnames

4,267

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+17.4%

change since 2000 (was #8,366)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,772	Grewal	4,270	72,306
#7,774	McCollough	4,269	72,323
#7,776	Husted	4,268	72,340
#7,778	Saltzman	4,267	72,357
#7,781	Strachan	4,266	72,374
#7,782	Arceo	4,265	72,391

Who is named Gluck

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

96% of people named Gluck identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Glucks

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Griffin Gluck
American actor, born 2000
Alma Gluck
American singer (1884–1938)
Will Gluck
American film director, screenwriter and producer, born 1978
Johann Ernst Glück
Baltic German writer and theologian (1654-1705)
Wolfgang Glück
Austrian filmmaker (1929–2023)

Notable Glucks come mostly from the United States (3) and Austria (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gluck

Gluck has the Soundex code G420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G420.

Questions

Where does the surname Gluck come from?: From the German surname Glück and Jewish surname (Yiddish גליק (glik)), both nouns meaning "luck." Compare Glick, Glueck.
How common is the surname Gluck?: 4,267 people in the United States had the surname Gluck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,357 Americans. It ranked 7,778th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gluck?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Gluck identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Gluck?: Griffin Gluck, American actor, followed by Alma Gluck.
Where is the surname Gluck most common?: Wikidata records people named Gluck in the United States and Austria.
Is the surname Gluck getting more or less common?: More common. 3,634 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,267 in 2010, up 17%.