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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Glass.
  • German : variant of Glass 1 or 3.
  • German : from a short form of the medieval personal name Gelasius, the name of a pope (492–96).
  • Welsh : nickname meaning ‘gray’, ‘green’, ‘silver-haired’.

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