The surname Gau
A German place surname, carried by 1,367 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex G000
Origin
German origin
Two main origins: * Borrowed from German Gau, a habitational surname. * A variant of Gao, a surname of Chinese origin.
Gau is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,367 people named Gau in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 225,856 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,158.
Who is named Gau
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Gau identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 77%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 18%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- Two or more races 1.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Gau has the Soundex code G000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G000.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Gau come from?
- Two main origins: * Borrowed from German Gau, a habitational surname. * A variant of Gao, a surname of Chinese origin.
- How common is the surname Gau?
- 1,367 people in the United States had the surname Gau in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,856 Americans. It ranked 19,703rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Gau?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Gau identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- What type of surname is Gau?
- Gau is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Gau getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,158 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,367 in 2010, up 18%.