Kauw
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kauw is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a jackdaw, the bird species Coloeus monedula, closely related to the crow, magpie and raven.
- NLNetherlands1 in 178K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.4M
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.5M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)
97 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a jackdaw, the bird species Coloeus monedula, closely related to the crow, magpie and raven
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kauw 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 97 | 1 in 178K | 97 | Kauw | 9 |
| DE Germany | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Kauw | 11 |
| US United States | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 42M | — | Kauw | 11 |
| AU Australia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 6.5M | — | Kauw | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
97 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Kauw 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.
In wuu, Edict
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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)
- Albrecht Kauwb. 1616FRartist (1616-1681)
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 97 | #19,431 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #204,160 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kauw mean, and where does it come from?
- a jackdaw, the bird species Coloeus monedula, closely related to the crow, magpie and raven Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kauw have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 97 people named Kauw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kauw.
- Where is Kauw most common?
- Kauw is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 178 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kauw?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 97 people named Kauw in 2007, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kauw?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kauwThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kauw”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.