Gladstone Surname

60,675th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 8,299 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Gibraltar

Gladstone Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of the Gledstanes.' A Scotch surname. The final 's' was dropped in quite modern times. Probably the stones or rocks frequented by the gledes, or kites; v. Glede.

William de Gledstanys, Yorkshire W.

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Gladstone Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States4,0081:90,43410,171
England1,2781:43,5985,542
Canada7631:48,2905,863
Australia6791:39,7585,146
Ghana3461:78,0947,799
Scotland2361:22,6862,561
Nigeria2181:812,58136,138
Tanzania1601:330,88524,859
Guyana1091:6,9931,154
New Zealand1071:42,3217,058
India891:8,618,712176,377
South Africa511:1,062,30863,943
United Arab Emirates391:234,93015,673
Wales331:93,7747,567
Brazil311:6,905,624162,221
Northern Ireland141:131,7887,342
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Jamaica121:239,1626,359
Trinidad and Tobago111:123,9987,543
Israel101:855,76354,181
Malaysia91:3,277,136121,952
Thailand71:10,091,192512,203
Gibraltar61:5,659991
Germany51:16,101,092397,699
China51:273,464,31313,838
France41:16,605,680368,153
Spain41:11,688,009116,470
Switzerland41:2,053,22997,179
Rwanda41:2,841,2443,611
Kuwait41:950,17418,811
Zimbabwe21:7,719,120118,432
Hong Kong21:3,667,74211,574
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
Papua New Guinea21:4,076,858165,791
United States Virgin Islands21:55,1886,229
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
Barbados11:287,4482,772
British Virgin Islands11:31,5941,029
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Suriname11:552,6169,664
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Cayman Islands11:63,8932,384
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Guatemala11:16,082,66812,169
Costa Rica11:4,780,06913,345
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Mongolia11:2,825,28917,010
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Chile11:17,616,47493,597
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Panama11:3,912,25817,195
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Cameroon11:20,769,068227,406
Cambodia11:15,487,14614,824
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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland81:553,73317,655
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England5551:43,9205,473
Scotland2441:15,3411,691
Wales91:174,2686,522
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1461:343,96426,445

Gladstone (12,246) may also be a first name.

Gladstone Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of the Gledstanes.' A Scotch surname. The final 's' was dropped in quite modern times. Probably the stones or rocks frequented by the gledes, or kites; v. Glede.

William de Gledstanys, Yorkshire W. 1.

Johannes Gledstanis de Wynitonhaw, 1497: The History of Liddesdale and the Debatable Land.

Andrew Gledstanis, 1497: ibid.

1547. 'Item, to Thonne Gledstanis and Archebald Banker, quhilkes of befoir war payit to the xv day of July instante, etc.

Philp Gledstanis, 1541: The History of Liddesdale and the Debatable Land.

1668. George Gleadstone (York) and Mary Capper: Marriage Alleg. (Canterbury).

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

From Gledstanes, Lanarkshire, now the name of a farm in the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, about four miles north of Biggar. Herbert de Gledstan or Gledestane of the county of Lanark, who took the oath of fealty to Edward I in 1296 is the first of the name on record. His seal bears an eight-leaved flower, and S' Herb'd' Gledstan (Bain, II, p. 204,558). William de Gledstanes witnessed a charter by Roger de Auldton, c. 1354 (Kelso, p. 387), and Sir William of Gledstanes, probably the same person, was present at the battle of Poitiers in 1356 (Fordun, I, p. 377n). Andrew de Gledstan was a witness in Brechin in 1364 (REB., I, 21), Andrew of Gledstanis was arrested in Norwich, England, in violation of the truce in 1396 (Bain, IV, 483), Magister Amere Gledstanys witnessed an instrument of sasine of the lands of Mernys and Nether-pollok in 1454 (Pollok, I, p. 176), Thomas Gledstane was admitted burgess of Aberdeen in 1480 (NSCM., I, p. 29), and in 1488 there was a concord between Stene Lokart and John of Gledstanis (Lanark, p. 3), Sir John Gladstone, father of the late William Ewart Gladstone, on 10th February 1835 obtained the royal license to change his name from Gladstones to Gladstone. The meaning of the name (ME. glede stan), is "the stone or rock frequented by the glede" a species of hawk. In the Museum in Hawick is preserved an old Bible which was formerly the property of the Gledstainss of that Ilk (Memories of Howick, p. 192). Gladistane 1487, Gladstanis 1664, Gladsteanis 1597, Glaidstainis 1634, Glaidstanis 1603, Glatdstouns 1631, Glattstouns 1599, Gledstaines 1649, Gledstains 1649, Gledstand 1504, Glestanis 1505. The name became Gladtsten in Sweden.

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

(English) Dweller at the Kite-Rock(s [Middle English glede (Scot. gled), Old English glida, a kite, hawk + Middle English stan(es, Old English stán(as] There is a Gledstanes in co. Lanark which occurs as Gledestan in 1296. This seems to prove that the etymology is as above, and not the Old English glæd, ‘bright.’

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(Scottish) One who came from Gledstanes (kite's rock), in Lanarkshire.

— Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

Local: place unknown.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

From Glaston; a location name in Rutland; in the Domesday Book, Gladestone.

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber
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Gladstone Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Gladstone Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Gladstone is held by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of Gladstone click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Gladstone? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 60,675th most commonly held surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 878,123 people. Gladstone occurs mostly in The Americas, where 59 percent of Gladstone live; 57 percent live in North America and 57 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 53,412th most widely held first name in the world It is held by 12,246 people.

Gladstone is most common in The United States, where it is carried by 4,008 people, or 1 in 90,434. In The United States Gladstone is most numerous in: New York, where 15 percent are found, California, where 11 percent are found and Florida, where 9 percent are found. Barring The United States this surname exists in 62 countries. It is also common in England, where 15 percent are found and Canada, where 9 percent are found.

Gladstone Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Gladstone has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Gladstone last name expanded 2,745 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 230 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it declined 3 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 367 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it declined 87 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Gladstone Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those carrying the Gladstone last name is primarily Anglican (75%) in Ireland.

In The United States those holding the Gladstone last name are 7.24% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 60.47% registered with the party.

The amount Gladstone earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 18.78% less than the national average, earning R 193,020 per year; in United States they earn 25.08% more than the national average, earning $53,969 USD per year and in Canada they earn 29.17% more than the national average, earning $64,176 CAD per year.

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