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The LAU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 25,624 1259 0.01 95
United States (1880 census) 465 10250 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +25159 +8991 +0.009 +86
Other Countries
Australia 3,092 500 0.019 189
United Kingdom 3,042 2038 0.007 66
Top States for LAU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 9,374 319 0.028 277
New York 3,684 406 0.019 194
Hawaii 1,633 11 0.135 1,348
New Jersey 899 956 0.011 107
Florida 843 2414 0.005 53
Top States for LAU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 1,633 11 0.135 1,348
California 9,374 319 0.028 277
New York 3,684 406 0.019 194
Washington 759 927 0.013 129
Nevada 240 935 0.012 120

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

Classification and Origin of LAU

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 LAU 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 LAU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 761 2.97
White (Hispanic) 700 2.73
Black/African American 54 0.21
Native American/Alaskan 26 0.1
Asian/Pacific 19,618 76.56
White (Caucasian) 4,464 17.42

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

Meaning of LAU in historical publications

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

Similar names to LAU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAU.

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 LAU

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