Glück

Name: Glück: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: Is the example of the giving of a name by law, Baden 1809

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/ɡlʏk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Glück is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common

DEGermany≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 78K
GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 100K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Germany (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 327 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gluck in US United States, GB United Kingdom, JM Jamaica and 2 more and Glueck in CH Switzerland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

Is the example of the giving of a name by law, Baden 1809. The term Glück means luck in English. (Since 1600 existing in Baden.)

Cited for this meaning 1

The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Glück counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Glück is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	—	≈4,600 est.	≈1 in 18K	listed	Glück	85
US United States	—	4,267	1 in 78K	4.3K	GLuck	327
ID Indonesia	—	≈840 est.	≈1 in 318K	—	GLuck	9
GB United Kingdom	—	≈660 est.	≈1 in 100K	—	GLuck	78
AT Austria	#873	≈520 est.	≈1 in 17K	—	Glück	33
CH Switzerland	—	180	1 in 47K	180	Glueck	15
NZ New Zealand	—	≈81 est.	≈1 in 61K	—	GLuck	9
JM Jamaica	—	≈59 est.	≈1 in 48K	—	GLuck	1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-5 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

Glück is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Honduras, Colombia
Also written GLuck, Glùck
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written GLuck
Croatian surname9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia, United States
Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian
Also written GLuck

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Glück is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In German, Personal characteristic surname from mhd./mnd. gelücke ‘luck, fortune, chance’; ‘fortunate/lucky person’. Bearer count: 2384.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, luck, fortune
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, happiness, joy, bliss (state or emotion)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Nachname aus persönlicher Eigenschaft: von ‚Glück‘/‚Fortune‘; 2.384 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, from abstract noun 'Glück'; also from obd. gelück 'Lücke'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

Johann Ernst Glückb. 1652DEBaltic German writer and theologian (1654-1705)
Christian Friedrich von Glückb. 1755DEGerman jurist
Christian Carl Glückb. 1791DEGerman judge (1791-1865)
Francia Grünb. 1904DEnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1904-08-22
Wolfgang Glückb. 1929ATAustrian filmmaker (1929–2023)
Gebhard Glückb. 1930DEGerman politician (1930-2009)
Alois Glückb. 1940DEGerman politician (1940–2024)
Horst Glückb. 1940DEGerman politician (1940-2004)
Louise Glückb. 1943USU.S. poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
Andreas Glückb. 1975DEGerman politician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Glück, (English)

InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence

14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Glück
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	180	#6,841
DE Germany	Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5	—	—	—

Reference works 4

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Wikipedia surname tokens
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Glück come from?: Is the example of the giving of a name by law, Baden 1809. The term Glück means luck in English. (Since 1600 existing in Baden.) Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
What are other forms of the name Glück?: In the etymology graph, Luck and Geluk are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Glück?: A machine transcription gives /ɡlʏk/ (IPA) for German.
What does the name Glück mean?: Recorded meaning: Is the example of the giving of a name by law, Baden 1809.
In which country does Glück have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Glück in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled glück.
How common is the name Glück?: In the United States, the national register counted 4,267 people named Glück in 2010, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
How common is Glück compared with other names?: In Austria, Glück is the 873rd most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gl%C3%BCck

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Glück” — the 873rd most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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