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

The Sau surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 239 people carried this name — #75,219 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,111,100 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 99 people named Sau.

34 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Haute-Garonne.

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

Where they were born

Born outside France 34
Haute-Garonne 21
Bouches-du-Rhône 19
Hauts-de-Seine 4
Rhône 4
Pyrénées-Orientales 4
Pyrénées-Atlantiques 3
Tarn-et-Garonne 3
Gard 3

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

In Belgium’s population register

At least 39 people named Sau live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in East Flanders.

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

Where they live today

East Flanders 17
Liège 15
Hainaut 7

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

When the index is not enough

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

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