Meanings
- A male given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century.
As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,,^([sic]) his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler."
2014 March 8, John Vaught Labeaume, “No Thanks, CPAC. This Libertarian Won't Attend a Conservative Love-Fest.”, in Reason, archived from the original on 19 Aug 20222 more examples
The Glen was the prettiest place she knew, so pretty she thought she ought to name her first baby after it. With another "n" added "to make it look more like a name", she called him Glenn Hammond Curtiss. The middle name was taken from the town itself, or its first settler, Lazarus Hammond. The whimsy of naming her son after a local landmark was typical of Lua Curtiss. Then too a name like Glenn Hammond Curtiss has sweep and resonance, was much less commonplace than Harry or Jim or Charlie; or Frank, like his father.
1937, Clara Studer, Sky storming Yankee, Stackpole sons, 1937, page 19Of course Crake wasn't Crake yet, at that time; his name was Glenn. Why did it have two n's instead of the usual spelling? "My dad liked music," was Crake's explanation, once Jimmy got around asking him about it, which had taken a while. "He named me after a dead pianist, some boy genius with two n's."
2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago, published 2004, →ISBN, page 80 - rareA female given name transferred from the surname.
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Glenn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Glenn
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