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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish : reduced form of McGlade.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived in a glade, Middle English glade.
  • English : from an Old English personal name Glæd.
  • German (also Gläde) : nickname for a handsome man, from Middle Low German glad(de) ‘smooth’, ‘shining’.

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