Littau
loc · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place so named in Moravia, or related to a Slavic personal name such as Litomir or Litoslaw, the first element being from Old Slavic ljutu ‘furious’, ‘wild’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Littau is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 37K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 990K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Littau itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
336 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Литтау in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan.
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(measured from records)
habitational name from a place so named in Moravia, or related to a Slavic personal name such as Litomir or Litoslaw, the first element being from Old Slavic ljutu ‘furious’, ‘wild’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Littau 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 | 336 | 1 in 990K | 339 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 159 | 1 in 37K | 159 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 967K | — | Литтау | 68 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Литтау | 21 |
| AR Argentina | 26 | 1 in 1.7M | 26 | — | — |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Литтау | 7 |
336 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 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Littau 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.
regional name from Littau ‘Lithuania’ (see Litwak).
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Monika Littaub. 1955DEGerman writer
- Daniel Littaub. 1991DEGerman actor
- Amalie Littaub. 2001Danish association football player
- Ida-Marie LittauDanish association football player
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 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 339 | #63,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 336 | #60,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 287 | #64,750 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 159 | #3,303 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 26 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Littau mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place so named in Moravia, or related to a Slavic personal name such as Litomir or Litoslaw, the first element being from Old Slavic ljutu ‘furious’, ‘wild’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Littau have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 336 people named Littau, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Littau most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Littau is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Littau?
- In the United States, the national register counted 336 people named Littau in 2010, about 1 in 990 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/littauThe 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, “Littau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.