Name: Glen
Gender: Male
Usage: Glen, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Glen are in general originating from Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Glen across the world, see Glenn.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Glen is: Valley, Woody valley.
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Numerology of the first name Glen: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 2. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: cooperative, sensitive, adaptive, passive, diplomatic, peaceful, warm.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Diplomatic, Sensitive
Ruling planet: Moon
Colors: Green, Cream
Gemstones: Pearl, Jade, Moonstone
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The name Glen is ranked on the 646th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 886900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.013% of the population. The name Glen has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Glen for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Glen is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Glen Benton, bass/vocals for Deicide, a death metal band
- Glen Campbell, singer
- Glen Cook, American science fiction and fantasy author
- Glen Christian, American football player
- Glen Davis (basketball) (born 1986), American basketball player
- Glen Gould, Canadian pianist
- Glen Hansard, songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish rock group The Frames
- Glen Miller (basketball coach), head men's basketball coach at the University of Pennsylvania
- Glen "Tirakh Draconian" Ojanpera, author of the Eye of the Dragon trilogy
- Glen Walker, American football player
- Glen Walshaw, Zimbabwean freestyle swimmer
Scottish and English: probably a transferred use of the surname, which was originally a topographic name from the Gaelic element gleann valley. It is also possible, however, that the given name is derived directly from the topographic term (compare Dean). In recent years it has been adopted in England as well as Scotland as a given name. There also appears to have been some confusion with the Welsh name Glyn.
Variant: Glenn (borne as a female name by the American actress Glenn Close (b. 1947)).
Feminine form: Glenna.
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