Naus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from places called Nauss Nausen (Lower Saxony) or Nans (near Trier)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 547K(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 19K
- NLNetherlands1 in 20K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from places called Nauss Nausen (Lower Saxony) or Nans (near Trier).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Naus | 2 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Naus | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 850 | 1 in 20K | 850 | Naus | 41 |
| US United States | — | 608 | 1 in 547K | 608 | Naus | 166 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Naus | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 187 | 1 in 57K | 187 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 89 | 1 in 132K | 89 | Naus | 10 |
| BZ Belize | #783 | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Naus | 1 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)
Naus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, patronymic from a reduced form of the Middle Dutch personal name Amoud (see Arnold).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In gmw-ecg, out (away from the speaker)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐌽𐌰𐌿𐍃
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, past tense of nyse
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)
- Josef Nausb. 1793DEOfficer and surveying technician (1793–1871)
- Wayne Nausb. 1946USAmerican trumpeter
- Reggie Nausb. 1973NLDutch writer
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 850 | #2,087 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 608 | #36,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 591 | #35,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 579 | #40,697 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 89 | #17,030 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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 Naus mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from places called Nauss Nausen (Lower Saxony) or Nans (near Trier). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Naus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Naus in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naus.
- How common is the name Naus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 850 people named Naus in 2007, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Naus compared with other names?
- In Belize, Naus is the 783rd most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nausThe 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, “Naus” — the 783rd most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.