Gleig Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 3
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 2
Lincolnshire 0
London 7
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 2
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Gleig Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Gleig family

Profession Census Frequency
Living On Own Means 2
Journalist 1
Retired Schoolmistress 1
Cob Late Royal Artilley 1
Bricklayer 1
Domestic Servant 1
Machinist 1
Printer's Boy 1
Soldier 1
Cook 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Gleig

Name Census Frequency
Mary Gleig 17
Caroline Gleig 11
Alice Gleig 9
Charles Gleig 9
James Gleig 9
John Gleig 9
Thomas Gleig 8
William Gleig 8
Emily Gleig 5
Jane Gleig 5
Margaret Gleig 5
Alexander Gleig 4
Edith Gleig 4
Elizabeth Gleig 4
Leslie Gleig 4
Arthur Gleig 3
Eliza Gleig 3
Frederick Gleig 3
George Gleig 3
Janet Gleig 3
Robert Gleig 3
Adelaide Gleig 2
Agnes Gleig 2
Alfred Gleig 2
Annie Gleig 2

Gleig Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Gloag 60% 409
2 Gleig 100% 210

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The surname Gleig is the 2nd most popular variant of Gloag.

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