The Glas Family Name

Spellings drift, and Glas is where Glass drifted for some families. Read literally, Glas points to “Glassmaker, or grey-green”. Glas drops the “s” of Glass, a shortening that clerks often made. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms. Other spellings include Glasse.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Glas surname had 650 bearers. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. French civil records give 450 births under the name Glas from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960.

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