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The HAU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,461 11680 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 82 35881 0 2
Change since 1880 +2379 +24201 +N/A +7
Other Countries
Australia 200 7550 0.001 12
United Kingdom 438 9749 0.001 10
Top States for HAU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 698 7370 0.002 21
Wisconsin 251 6246 0.005 47
New York 212 16644 0.001 11
Colorado 129 7940 0.003 30
Texas 107 23761 0.001 5
Top States for HAU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 251 6246 0.005 47
Colorado 129 7940 0.003 30
Oklahoma 72 9704 0.002 21
California 698 7370 0.002 21
Nevada 39 10833 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of HAU

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HAU surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HAU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 837 34.01
Black/African American 274 11.13
White (Hispanic) 108 4.39
Mixed Race 59 2.4
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.49
White (Caucasian) 1,171 47.58

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

Meaning of HAU in historical publications

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

Similar names to HAU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HAU.

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 HAU

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