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Origin Of The Surname Glen
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Meaning Of The Surname Glen
From the Town by the Valley
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Interesting
Facts About
Glen
Glen is a locational surname, originating from one of any places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The word comes from either the old English ‘glenno’ or the Gaelic ‘gleann’, both meaning ‘valley’. This could also have been used as a topographical surname, given to a person from the glen. |
Glen Statistics
Glen is the number 1639 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,354 share the surname Glen in the UK.
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