Bau Family History
- Bau Name Meaning
- German: of uncertain origin; probably from Old High German buan ‘to live at a place’, or an occupational name from Middle High German bu, bou ‘cultivation’ or perhaps from a short form of compounds with this element, such as Bauhofer, Baumann. French: of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Beau meaning ‘handsome’, though it has also been suggested that it may derive from an obsolete personal name of Germanic origin. Chinese : variant of Bao 1. Chinese : variant of Bao 2. Chinese : variant of Bao 3.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 50,232 Historical Documents with Bau on Ancestry
- 21,038 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,040 Census and Voter Lists
- 14,207 Military Records
- 1,301 Immigration Records
- 9,646 Member Trees
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Number of Bau families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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