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The PALAU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 520 39756 0 2
United States (1880 census) -1 114433 0 0
Change since 1880 +521 +74677 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 17 59960 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PALAU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 149 12121 0.001 9
New York 84 22082 0.000 4
Texas 52 25540 0.000 2
California 48 44769 0.000 1
Pennsylvania 27 49651 0.000 2
Top States for PALAU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 19 6166 0.002 16
Florida 149 12121 0.001 9
Utah 10 16896 0.000 4
New York 84 22082 0.000 4
Connecticut 15 31319 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of PALAU

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

Ethnic distribution of PALAU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 344 66.15
White (Caucasian) 131 25.19
Asian/Pacific 35 6.73
Mixed Race 9 1.73
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of PALAU in historical publications

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

Similar names to PALAU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PALAU.

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 PALAU

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