The Glad surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,156 people carried this name — #22,301 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 256,400 people counted. That is up 4% from 1,112 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 311 people named Glad.
16 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Moselle.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
1,652 people named Glad are counted in Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Glad,
with a public archive behind them.
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L. C. Glad 1855–1918 · wholesaler -
Rasmus Glad 1526–1582 · writer
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Frederik Glad 1760–1840 · politician
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Christian Glad 1794–1866 · military personnel
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Anders Andersen Glad 1795–1872 · farmer
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Anna Glad 1835–1909 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Glad.
- Giustiniani 141 · U.S. census
- Giusto 751 · U.S. census
- Giza 931 · U.S. census
- Gizzi 1,227 · U.S. census
- Glab 483 · U.S. census
- Glace 449 · U.S. census
- Gladieux 489 · U.S. census
- Gladin 298 · U.S. census
- Glady 133 · U.S. census
- Glaize 117 · U.S. census
- Glapa 117 · U.S. census
- Glardon 157 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Glad is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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