Nau surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Nau surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,676 people carried this name — #10,912 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 101,000 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 970 people named Nau.

26 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 56 départements, most often Moselle.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 26
Moselle 184
Gironde 99
Indre-et-Loire 91
Maine-et-Loire 76
Charente-Maritime 69
Paris 45
Vienne 36
Seine-et-Marne 35

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

39 people named Nau live in Switzerland.

They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Graubünden.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Graubünden 8
St. Gallen 6
Vaud 6
Zurich 6
Schwyz 5
Aargau 4
Geneva 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Nau is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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