Grau

4,158 people in the United States were counted with the surname Grau in the 2020 census, making it the 7,676th most common in the country. That is about one person in 71,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,158
Rank: 7,676th
How common: 1 in 71,900
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

As a German surname, borrowed from German Grau, a nickname for someone with grey hair or beard.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Grau described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.9%
Hispanic or Latino 21.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Grau

Ramón Grau (1887–1969)president of Cuba
Raúl Cubas Grau (born 1943)45.° President of Paraguay
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau (1810–1887)president of Uruguay
Miguel Grau (1834–1879)Peruvian admiral
Shirley Ann Grau (1929–2020)American writer
Roberto Grau (1900–1944)Argentine chess player
Oliver Grau (born 1965)German art historian and media theoretician
Doris Grau (1924–1995)American script supervisor

People named Grau with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Grau

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.