Fun Facts About the Name Glauk
- 27 babies named Glauk: U.S. records list 27 babies given the name Glauk from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Glauk Mean?
Glauk is a short form of the Greek name Glaukos (Γλαῦκος), which is built on the adjective glaukos (γλαυκός). The adjective first meant "gleaming, bright, sparkling," and only later came to describe pale gray-blue tones, especially of the sea and of eyes. The literal sense of the name is therefore "bright, gleaming," and the color meaning is a later extension rather than the original one. The same adjective lies behind the goddess Athena's epithet glaukōpis, commonly translated "bright-eyed" or "gray-eyed." The deeper origin of the Greek word itself is uncertain; it may not be inherited from other Indo-European vocabulary, and some scholars treat it as a word of pre-Greek origin.
Glauk Name History & Origins
Glaukos is an old Greek name carried by several figures in myth. In the Iliad, Glaukos of Lycia, grandson of Bellerophon, fights on the Trojan side and exchanges armor with the Greek Diomedes. A separate Glaukos is the son of Sisyphus and king of Corinth. A third, the sea god Glaukos, was described as a fisherman who turned into a sea deity after eating a magical herb; Greek and later Roman writers, including Ovid, told versions of that story. The name also belonged to historical Greeks, among them the sculptor Glaucus of Chios.
The shortened form Glauk is used as a masculine given name in Albanian-speaking parts of the Balkans, including Albania and Kosovo, where it stands alongside other names drawn from Greek myth and ancient history. Whether a given family's use of the name descends continuously from antiquity or reflects a later revival tied to literary and national-cultural interests in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is not something the available evidence settles.
How Popular is the Name Glauk?
Glauk has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2024. Its best rank was #8,526 in 2024.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #10,032 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2024 | #8,526 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #11,295 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #12,813 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Glauk Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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