Genaw

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Genaw is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gnau.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 967K(measured from records)

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)

344 people, 2010

Sources
3 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 967K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gnau.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Genaw 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 Genaw is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3441 in 967K344Genaw3
EG Egypt———Genaw2

344 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. 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)

Genaw is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Amharic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written ገናው

25 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)

Genaw is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Possibly an altered spelling of French Juneau.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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 6 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Genaw
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010344#58,876
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020327#65,511
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000280#66,073
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Genaw mean, and where does it come from?
Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gnau. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Genaw have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 344 people named Genaw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled genaw.
Where is Genaw most common?
Genaw is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 967 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Genaw?
In the United States, the national register counted 344 people named Genaw in 2010, about 1 in 967 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, “Genaw”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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