Taus

surname · Latin script

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

Taus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational surname from Taus/Domažlice.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 75K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 33K
  • HRCroatia1 in 201K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

606 people

Sources
46 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational surname from Taus/Domažlice

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Taus 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 Taus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina6061 in 75K606Taus37
CZ Czechia3241 in 33K325——
US United States3001 in 1.1M302Taus26
ES Spain2301 in 217K230Taus46
CA Canada≈82 est.≈1 in 462K—Taus3
NL Netherlands401 in 432K40—2
HR Croatia211 in 201K21——

606 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Taus 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, Canada, Germany, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Taüs, Tauş, Tauš, Taús

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Slovakia, Philippines

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Tauš

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Tauş

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tauš

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines

    Also written Tauş

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Tauš

37 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Taus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Domažlice (a town in the Plzeň Region, Czech Republic)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mww, ax, axe; hatchet

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, behind, backside

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, quiet, silent

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Alois Taus, b. 1886Desider Taus, b. 1900Václav Tauš, b. 1910Otto Taus, b. 1924Josef Taus, b. 1933Margit Taus, b. 1956René Tauš, b. 1971
  • Alois Tausb. 1886CZHolocaust victim (born 1886)
  • Desider Tausb. 1900CZHolocaust victim (born 1900)
  • Václav Taušb. 1910CZCzechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, general and Czechoslovak politician
  • Otto Tausb. 1924ATHolocaust victim (born 1924)
  • Josef Tausb. 1933ATAustrian politician
  • Margit Tausb. 1956ATAustrian illustrator
  • René Taušb. 1971CZCzech para table tennis player

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)

Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Taus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—606—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000302#62,046
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010300#65,964
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020280#74,428
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—230#14,886
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—230#14,849
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200740#35,503
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—11#75,478
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—11#17,888
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Taus mean, and where does it come from?
habitational surname from Taus/Domažlice Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
In which country does Taus have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 606 people named Taus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taus.
Where is Taus most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Taus is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Taus?
In Argentina, the national register counted 606 people named Taus, about 1 in 75 thousand 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, “Taus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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