Alau
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alau is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
- MXMexico
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alau counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 1 | Alau | 7 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | Alau | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 28 | — | 13 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | 1 | — | — |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Alau is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, vocative singular of alùs (“beer”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, driving before one; "chivvying". Of beaters driving elephants into a trap, herdsmen driving cattle, etc. Also (in modern Malaya) to drive away
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mhy, great-great grandparent, PPPP
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #99,072 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 10 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1982 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1992 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1986 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1985 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1964 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1962 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1983 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1975 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1974 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Alau have the most bearers?
- Alau is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled alau.
What do you want to know about Alau?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alauThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Alau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.