Glenn
Fewer than a hundred people in Poland carry it, and most Poles have never met one. A Germanic name meaning "valley", it draws almost no newborns now and reads as a name of older generations.
Glenn Pronunciation
Glenn is pronounced GLENN (/glɛnn/).
What Glenn means
Where Glenn comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Glenn grows from a Germanic root and settled into English use. Its short meaning is valley, the low ground that lies below the hills. The association is firmly English, worn by men across Britain and North America for generations.
The best known bearer is probably John Glenn, the American astronaut who orbited the Earth in 1962. His flight put the name on front pages around the world. A decade earlier, the bandleader Glenn Miller had already made it familiar to anyone who owned a radio. Two public lives, one plain word behind them.
In Poland the name reads as an import. On a class register it would sit oddly between a Jakub and a Szymon, and a clerk at the urząd might ask twice how to spell it. That foreign look does not change what the name says. The meaning stays fixed. Glenn is a valley, the sheltered green between two slopes.
How many people are named Glenn
1 in 224697 men in Poland is named Glenn. 97 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3519 among male names.
Glenn as a middle name
Glenn is a first name for 97 men in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1556th, between Fryc (29) and Gábor (29).
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#1554 Emilov29
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#1555 Fryc29
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#1556 Glenn29
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#1557 Gábor29
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#1558 Halil29