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gleason Name Meaning and History

Irish (Munster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Glasáin, from a diminutive of glas ‘green’, ‘blue’, ‘gray’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gleason Families in the US in 1920
Number of gleason families
 562-1121
 188-561		 1-187
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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