Last name: GLEN
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GLEN : This last name is indexed 71,945 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GLEN : 1: Scottish (central Scotland): habitational name from Glen in Traquair (Peebleshire). The placename is derived from Gaelic gleann ‘glen valley’.2: English: habitational name from a place so called in Leicestershire so named from an Old English word glean ‘glen valley’ (from Celtic glinn).3: Jewish (Ashkenazic): presumably an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish names.
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