Glenn

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Glenn

/ɡlɛn/ US, UK
/ɡlɪn/ pin pen merger

Rhymes with -ɛn

proper noun

An unincorporated community in Glenn County, California, United States.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Heard County, Georgia, United States.
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Illinois, United States.
An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Missouri, United States.
A surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Glen.
A male given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century. 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 whim
rare A female given name transferred from the surname.

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Closest in meaning: john glenn, glynn, gould, hey, glyn, glen, bidirectional, dale, dell, vale, hollow, valley, cwm, combe, dingle, corrie

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@misc{glenn_2026,
  title = {Glenn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/glenn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}