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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Cornish origin) : metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower.
  • Scottish : reduced form of McGlasson.
  • French and Swiss French : from a diminutive of glace ‘ice’, hence a nickname for a cold person.

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