Landau Surname
Approximately 14,965 people bear this surname
Landau Surname Definition:
Place name in Germany.
Landau Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7,960 | 1:45,535 | 5,552 |
| Germany | 2,658 | 1:30,288 | 3,989 |
| England | 681 | 1:81,818 | 9,053 |
| France | 619 | 1:107,306 | 15,912 |
| Israel | 461 | 1:18,563 | 2,770 |
| Panama | 273 | 1:14,331 | 1,102 |
| Canada | 253 | 1:145,635 | 14,918 |
| Australia | 235 | 1:114,875 | 12,758 |
| Russia | 204 | 1:706,486 | 59,947 |
| Egypt | 183 | 1:502,381 | 28,715 |
| Argentina | 181 | 1:236,151 | 19,247 |
| Brazil | 162 | 1:1,321,446 | 45,095 |
| South Africa | 102 | 1:531,154 | 42,340 |
| Switzerland | 94 | 1:87,371 | 9,726 |
| Belgium | 70 | 1:164,238 | 22,550 |
| Austria | 69 | 1:123,412 | 17,157 |
| Indonesia | 64 | 1:2,066,394 | 128,621 |
| Thailand | 63 | 1:1,121,244 | 165,873 |
| Ukraine | 54 | 1:843,013 | 83,340 |
| Poland | 50 | 1:760,175 | 61,940 |
| Latvia | 44 | 1:46,592 | 7,086 |
| Denmark | 37 | 1:152,560 | 13,318 |
| Malaysia | 36 | 1:819,284 | 37,745 |
| Papua New Guinea | 35 | 1:232,963 | 32,024 |
| Dominican Republic | 31 | 1:336,546 | 11,471 |
| Italy | 29 | 1:2,108,851 | 90,314 |
| Sweden | 28 | 1:351,670 | 24,678 |
| Singapore | 26 | 1:211,835 | 10,313 |
| Croatia | 22 | 1:192,209 | 23,417 |
| Mexico | 17 | 1:7,301,541 | 34,591 |
| Norway | 16 | 1:321,393 | 31,311 |
| Czechia | 15 | 1:708,898 | 64,682 |
| Venezuela | 14 | 1:2,157,434 | 25,468 |
| Spain | 13 | 1:3,596,310 | 69,669 |
| Uruguay | 11 | 1:311,978 | 20,848 |
| Chile | 10 | 1:1,761,647 | 27,489 |
| Monaco | 9 | 1:4,118 | 434 |
| India | 9 | 1:85,229,487 | 684,495 |
| Belarus | 9 | 1:1,055,673 | 72,859 |
| Slovakia | 8 | 1:667,056 | 68,191 |
| Hungary | 8 | 1:1,227,035 | 53,030 |
| Scotland | 7 | 1:764,831 | 25,488 |
| Finland | 7 | 1:785,243 | 38,644 |
| Philippines | 7 | 1:14,462,603 | 238,248 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 1:1,527,046 | 51,993 |
| Azerbaijan | 6 | 1:1,608,187 | 20,863 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1:2,814,529 | 101,176 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Cuba | 4 | 1:2,880,679 | 10,064 |
| Armenia | 4 | 1:732,545 | 11,666 |
| Curaçao | 4 | 1:39,312 | 638 |
| Lithuania | 4 | 1:758,647 | 25,175 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Moldova | 3 | 1:1,187,123 | 48,973 |
| Georgia | 3 | 1:1,248,515 | 28,066 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 1:3,667,742 | 11,574 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Zambia | 1 | 1:15,849,922 | 53,989 |
| Swaziland | 1 | 1:1,298,199 | 1,718 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Albania | 1 | 1:2,914,055 | 29,474 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1:65,279 | 3,010 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 28 | 1:870,549 | 37,307 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 144 | 1:348,741 | 26,729 |
Landau (284) may also be a first name.
Landau Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Place name in Germany.
(German) One who came from Landau (meadowland), the name of three towns in Germany.
(from a place name) From Landau, a town in Bavaria. When the city expelled its Jews in 1545, the refugees moved to Prague. Here the name first appears.
Landau Demographics
Average Landau Salary in
United States
$50,584 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Landau Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Landau Come From? nationality or country of origin
Landau (Arabic: لندو, Georgian: ლანდაუ, Russian: Ландау) is most common in The United States. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Landau? popularity and diffusion
It is the 35,328th most frequently used surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 486,973 people. The surname is predominantly found in The Americas, where 57 percent of Landau live; 52 percent live in North America and 51 percent live in Anglo-North America. Landau is also the 525,265th most frequently used first name internationally. It is borne by 284 people.
The surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is carried by 7,960 people, or 1 in 45,535. In The United States Landau is most numerous in: New York, where 35 percent are found, California, where 14 percent are found and Florida, where 8 percent are found. Apart from The United States it occurs in 82 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 18 percent are found and England, where 5 percent are found.
Landau Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Landau has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname rose 5,528 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 2,432 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Landau Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the last name is principally Orthodox (80%) in Russia and Orthodox (50%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Landau surname are 41.89% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 95.12% registered with the party.
The amount Landau earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 13.04% less than the national average, earning 300,964 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 13.25% more than the national average, earning R 269,124 per year; in United States they earn 17.23% more than the national average, earning $50,584 USD per year and in Canada they earn 48.51% more than the national average, earning $73,782 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Landau Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Landau in the Georgian language | ||
| ლანდაუ | landau | - |
| Landau in the Russian language | ||
| Ландау | landau | - |
| Landau in the Arabic language | ||
| لندو | lndw | - |
| نداو | ndaw | - |
| لاندو | landw | - |
| اندو | andw | - |
| ندو | ndw | - |
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Landau Reference & Research
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Footnotes
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