Kaú
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kaú is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Middle High German gehau ‘(mountain) clearing’, hence a topographic name for a mountain dweller or possibly an occupational name for a logger.
- DKDenmark1 in 115K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 362K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 115K (inferred from the name graph)
919 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kau in US United States, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Middle High German gehau ‘(mountain) clearing’, hence a topographic name for a mountain dweller or possibly an occupational name for a logger.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaú counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 919 | 1 in 362K | 972 | Kau | 35 |
| IN India | 453 | 1 in 2.9M | 453 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 51 | 1 in 115K | 51 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 18 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 11 | 1 in 4.5M | 11 | Kau | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 4 | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | — | 1 |
919 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kaú mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle High German gehau ‘(mountain) clearing’, hence a topographic name for a mountain dweller or possibly an occupational name for a logger. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Kaú a male or female name?
- Kaú is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kaú have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 919 people named Kaú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kau.
- Where is Kaú most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaú is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 115 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 919 people named Kaú in 2010, about 1 in 362 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ka%C3%BAThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kaú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.