Landau

Landau is the 5,757th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,801 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 51,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,801
Rank: 5,757th
How common: 1 in 51,500
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

From German Landau.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 94.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Landau

Lev Landau (1908–1968)Soviet theoretical physicist
Martin Landau (1928–2017)American actor
Edmund Landau (1877–1938)German Jewish mathematician
Jon Landau (1960–2024)American film producer
Juliet Landau (born 1965)American actress
Jon Landau (born 1947)American music critic, manager, and record producer
Michael Landau (born 1958)American musician
Sigalit Landau (born 1969)Israeli sculptor, video and installation artist

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

Surnames like Landau

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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.