Belau
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bɛlaw/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Belau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 100Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 240Kfew records
- BRBrazil1 in 330K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
≈970 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Belau 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Belau | 12 |
| DE Germany | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Belau | 67 |
| BR Brazil | 642 | 1 in 330K | 642 | — | — |
| US United States | 256 | 1 in 1.3M | 256 | Belau | 129 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 781K | — | Belau | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 756K | — | Belau | 17 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Belau is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, alternative form of Palau: Palau (a country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pau, Palau (a country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, a washing blue, for bluing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, blue (blue-colored)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( L, BN ap. Lh; H (L, BN, S) ). "Petite faucille à court manche et lame recourbée dont on se sert pour faucher l'ajonc épineux. Id. belhaugua, belauria " H . "Faucille à faucher les ajoncs" Lh . v. belagoi .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Basque, ( Lar ( H), VocCB ( Dv) ). "Valle, ibarra, haran, irura, errepira, belaua " Lar ( H) . " Ibarra , valle. Sin. Irura, hara[n], errepira, belau-a " VocCB .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Ángel Faus Belaub. 1936ESSpanish journalist (1936-2020)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 642 | #13,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 256 | #75,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 249 | #81,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 222 | #79,676 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Belau?
- In Portuguese /bɛlaw/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Belau have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 974 people named Belau in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belau.
- How common is the name Belau?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 642 people named Belau, about 1 in 330 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Belau?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/belauThe 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, “Belau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.