Trâu

given name · Latin script

Meaning: water buffalo

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Trâu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 683K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 902K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

189 people, 2010

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 683K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Trau in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

water buffalo

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Trâu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Trâu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1891 in 1.8M217Trau9
BE Belgium131 in 902K13—1
NO Norway81 in 683K8—3
PL Poland71 in 5.5M4——
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——

189 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Trâu is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Trau, Traù, Trẫu, Trẩu

  • Finnish name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Trau

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Trau

  • Thai surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written Trau, ตราอู, ตราอ, ตราอี

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Tràu, Trau

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Трау, Trau

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Zou Yan, b. 305Zou Rong, b. 1885Zou Taofen, b. 1895Raymond Chow, b. 1927Zou Jingzhi, b. 1952Olivia Chow, b. 1957Matt Chow, b. 1968Zou Shiming, b. 1981Zou Kai, b. 1988Zou Jingyuan, b. 1998
  • Zou Yanb. 305not in their usual nameZhou Dynasty philosopher
  • Zou Rongb. 1885CNnot in their usual nameChinese writer (1885–1905)
  • Zou Taofenb. 1895CNnot in their usual nameChinese journalist (1895–1944)
  • Raymond Chowb. 1927CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film producer (1927–2018)
  • Zou Jingzhib. 1952CNnot in their usual nameChinese playwright
  • Olivia Chowb. 1957CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
  • Matt Chowb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong screenwriter, director, actor and producer
  • Zou Shimingb. 1981CNnot in their usual nameChinese boxer
  • Zou Kaib. 1988CNnot in their usual nameChinese artistic gymnast
  • Zou Jingyuanb. 1998CNnot in their usual nameChinese gymnast

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Trâu under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Trâu mean, and where does it come from?
water buffalo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Trâu a male or female name?
Trâu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Trâu have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 189 people named Trâu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trau.
Where is Trâu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Trâu is densest in Norway — about 1 in 683 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Trâu?
In the United States, the national register counted 189 people named Trâu in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Trâu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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