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The RAU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,208 3975 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 1,211 4642 0.002 24
Change since 1880 +6997 +667 +0.001 +6
Other Countries
Australia 141 10468 0.001 9
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RAU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 852 1162 0.009 86
California 744 3750 0.002 22
Pennsylvania 466 3066 0.004 38
Florida 448 4215 0.003 28
Minnesota 408 1267 0.008 83
Top States for RAU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 147 426 0.023 229
South Dakota 114 626 0.015 151
Michigan 852 1162 0.009 86
Minnesota 408 1267 0.008 83
Montana 66 1679 0.007 73

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

Classification and Origin of RAU

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RAU 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 RAU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 300 3.65
White (Hispanic) 123 1.5
Black/African American 92 1.12
Mixed Race 91 1.11
Native American/Alaskan 31 0.38
White (Caucasian) 7,571 92.24

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

Meaning of RAU in historical publications

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

Similar names to RAU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAU.

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 RAU

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