The Pau surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 852 people carried this name — #28,100 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 344,800 people counted. That is up 50% from 567 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 575 people named Pau.
58 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 60 départements, most often Nord.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 88 people named Pau live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Pau,
with a public archive behind them.
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Marie-Edmée Pau 1845–1871 · writer -
Paul Pau 1848–1932 · military personnel -
Pere de Sagarriga i de Pau 1400–1419 · Catholic priest
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Pere de Sagarriga i de Pau 1400–1418 · Catholic priest
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Jeroni Pau 1458–1497 · poet
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Joan Pau i Guardiola 1500–1600 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Pau.
- Patti 3,899 · U.S. census
- Pattin 248 · U.S. census
- Patton 66,293 · U.S. census
- Patty 3,306 · U.S. census
- Pattyn 141 · U.S. census
- Paty 391 · U.S. census
- Paul 78,256 · U.S. census
- Paula 1,538 · U.S. census
- Paulat 122 · U.S. census
- Paule 835 · U.S. census
- Paulen 143 · U.S. census
- Paulet 167 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Pau is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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