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The GAU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,158 21124 0 4
United States (1880 census) 122 27582 0 2
Change since 1880 +1036 +6458 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 12 78353 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GAU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 129 16640 0.000 4
Wisconsin 124 5943 0.002 23
Minnesota 118 5387 0.002 24
Ohio 95 12172 0.001 8
Texas 77 17173 0.000 4
Top States for GAU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 118 5387 0.002 24
Iowa 70 5631 0.002 24
Wisconsin 124 5943 0.002 23
South Dakota 15 7638 0.002 20
Missouri 69 8949 0.001 12

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GAU live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GAU represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GAU in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GAU by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GAU

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GAU surname.

Ethnic distribution of GAU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 906 78.24
Asian/Pacific 222 19.17
Mixed Race 12 1.04
Black/African American 9 0.78
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GAU surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

GAU is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GAU in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GAU.

Similar names to GAU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAU.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GAU

The following words are slight variants of GAU that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.