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au Name Meaning and History

  1. South German, Swiss, and Austrian: topographic name from dialect Au ‘water meadow’, ‘stream’ (see Aue).
  2. Chinese : variant of Ou 1.
  3. Vietnamese: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of au Families in the US in 1920
Number of au families
 16-30
 6-15
 1-5
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 8 - Messages: 19
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Au family Antonia Seitz 10
Au/ Aue Family in Germany & PA, New Site Donna Forney Clark 0
Au Family in Germany & PA DonnaForney51 0
Au Family in Germany & PA DonnaForney51 0
Emil Au, born Germany circa 1876 > died Jamaica Queens NY 1942 metaphor 0
Stephan Au(dik fun) Lise Au 1
Peter August Au Jerseylu 0
Au ldrooster 0
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