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glasgow Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: local name from the city on the Clyde (first recorded in 1116 as Glasgu), or from either of two minor places with the same name in Aberdeenshire. The etymology of the place name is disputed; it is probably from Welsh glas ‘gray’, ‘green’, ‘blue’ + cau ‘hollows’.
  2. Scottish and Irish: altered form of Closkey, reduced and Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Bhloscaidhe ‘son of Bloscadh’ (see McCloskey).
  3. Irish: variant of the English family name Glasscock, which was once common in County Kildare.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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glasgow Family Facts

Distribution of glasgow Families in the US in 1920
Number of glasgow families
 56-109
 19-55		 1-18
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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