Palau is used as a family name or surname in France. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Palau
No. of characters: 5
Origin: France
Meaning: Two possibilities. Is he who lives in the palace or works (lat. Palatium), knowing that in medieval Catalan word does not necessarily designate a building as large as Versailles (thus, Bouleternère, there is a Palauan whose dimensions were rather modest ). Let him who is from the village of Palau.

How popular is Palau?

Palau is common in France.

Palau is ranked 24934 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Palaus grew by 42.88462 per cent to 743 since 2000 and ranked 31211 after elevating 8545 spots. The last name was found in around 2 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
Hispanic or Latino 71.06 66.15
White 19.25 25.19
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 6.46 6.73
Others 2.69 1.73
Palau is quite popular family name mostly used in Spain while Andorra is ahead in terms of density. Around 20536 people have been found who wears Palau as their family name. Palau is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
615,517 Russia6
46,707 New Zealand5
6,270 Hong Kong3
57 Palau3
1,850 Papua New Guinea3
4,086 Angola2
26,123 Malaysia2
24,269 Peru2
19,046 Ireland2
20,595 China2
24,766 Scotland2
21,562 Portugal1
199,150 Kazakhstan1
123,175 Tanzania1
107,212 South Africa1
13,606 Senegal1
49,101 Denmark1
3,586 Honduras1
7,198 Maldives1
8,268 Mauritius1
11,923 Slovenia1
2,578 Guam1
7,314 Bolivia1
4,249 Cambodia1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
20,318 United Arab Emirates46
23,537 Switzerland45
58,491 Australia32
43,662 Belgium30
233,817 Indonesia27
395,979 India22
124,653 Canada20
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
67 Andorra86
6,658 Uruguay73
Countries with hundreds of Palau:
1,959 Ecuador829
37,282 United States759
18,206 Germany572
3,696 Venezuela502
1,332 Paraguay454
36,063 Brazil318
39,199 Philippines258
42,475 Italy190
1,583 Puerto Rico163
2,265 Panama147
6,815 Chile144
33,856 England129
17,090 Romania104
Countries with thousands of Palau:
756 Spain7,201
2,252 Mexico3,952
2,822 Argentina1,747
2,086 Colombia1,502
7,739 France1,139
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Palau is an original locality name (pyrenees-Orientales), regional variant palace.

Palau Namesakes

  • Marcelo Palau, Soccer midfielder
  • Josep Palau i Fabre, Poet
  • Francisco Palau, Priest
  • Francisco Palau, Priest
  • Ferran Palau, Singer
  • Luis Argentino Palau, Chess master
  • Pierre Palau, Actor
  • Josep Palau i Fabre, Poet
  • Laia Palau, Basketball player
  • Luis Palau, Evangelist

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