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glaser Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Swiss German (also Gläser): occupational name for a glass blower or glazier, from an agent derivative of Middle High German glas ‘glass’. This name is widespread throughout central Europe.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a glass blower or glazier, from the German word Glaser.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of glaser Families in the US in 1920
Number of glaser families
 161-319
 54-160		 1-53
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Glasers in Cincinnati Teri Wheeler 3
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