Given name & surname
Gleason
“descendant of Glasán”
Gleason is a surname from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gleason goes back to Irish Ó Glasáin, meaning “descendant of Glasán.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Ó Glasáin (“descendant of Glasán”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gleason through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 383
- 383 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1965. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 191 as a first name in 2020; 24,410 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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