Jaus
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jaus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 153K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
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)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 153K (inferred from the name graph)
123 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 123 | 1 in 2.7M | 129 | Jaus | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 55 | 1 in 153K | 55 | — | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Jaus | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | — | listed | — | — |
123 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Jaus 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 Catalan, second-person singular present indicative of jaure
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, dotty, nuts
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dta, fish
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)
- Otto Jausb. 1983ATAustrian stage actor, singer and cabaret artist
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 129 | #123,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 123 | #136,449 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 113 | #147,221 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 55 | #17,311 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #154,202 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| 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
- In which country does Jaus have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 123 people named Jaus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaus.
- Where is Jaus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaus is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 153 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jaus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 123 people named Jaus in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Jaus?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jausThe 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, “Jaus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.