Girl name origins & meanings
- Irish : Secluded wooded valley
Boy name origins & meanings
- Irish : Secluded wooded valley
Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Gaelic gleann, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Glen near Peebles.
- English : habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, so named from an Old English word glean ‘glen’, ‘valley’ (from Celtic glinn).
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : presumably an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish names.
- A Scottish family of this name settled among the Dutch at Beverwijck in New Netherland in the 17th century and later became prominent in Schenectady.
