Rau

At the 2020 census, 8,480 Americans bore the surname Rau — 4,063rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 35,200.

By the numbers

People: 8,480
Rank: 4,063rd
How common: 1 in 35,200
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Rau

Johannes Rau (1931–2006)German politician (SPD), 8th president of Germany from 1999 until 2004
Zbigniew Rau (born 1955)Polish politician
Benegal Narsing Rau (1887–1953)Indian civil servant and jurist
Tobias Rau (born 1981)German footballer
Karl Heinrich Rau (1792–1870)German economist
Prabha Rau (1935–2010)Indian politician
Ines Rau (born 1990)French transgender model
Heinrich Rau (1899–1961)German Communist politician

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

Surnames like Rau

Rauch
Rausch

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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.