Thau is a surname.
Origins
As an
Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Thau originated either from the German word meaning "dew", from the name of the letter ''
tav'' in the
Hebrew script
The Hebrew alphabet ( he, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish ...
, or from some personal name which started with that letter.
Tháu is also a
Gan
The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to:
Places
*Gan, a component of Hebrew placenames literally meaning "garden"
China
* Gan River (Jiangxi)
* Gan River (Inner Mongolia),
* Gan County, in Jiangxi province
* Gansu, abbreviated ''Gā ...
romanization
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of two
Chinese surname
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the ...
s:
Cao Cao or CAO may refer to:
Mythology
*Cao (bull), a legendary bull in Meitei mythology
Companies or organizations
* Air China Cargo, ICAO airline designator CAO
*CA Oradea, Romanian football club
*CA Osasuna, Spanish football club
*Canadian Assoc ...
and
Tao
''Tao'' or ''Dao'' is the natural order of the universe, whose character one's intuition must discern to realize the potential for individual wisdom, as conceived in the context of East Asian philosophy, East Asian religions, or any other philo ...
.
Statistics
As of 2019, there were 71 people in
Denmark
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...
with the surname Thau.
In the
Netherlands
)
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, established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
, there were zero people with the surname Thau as of 2007, down from four in 1947.
The
2010 United States Census
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found 457 people with the surname Thau, making it the 46,568th-most-common name in the country. This represented a decrease from 466 (43,629th-most-common) in the
2000 Census. In the 2010 census, about eight-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as
White
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, and 13 percent as
Asian
Asian may refer to:
* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
.
People
*
Martin Thau (1887–1979), Danish gymnast
*
Benny Thau
Benjamin Thau (15 December 1898 – 5 July 1983) was an American businessman who became vice-president of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a subsidiary of the Loew's theater chain. From 1928 he was in charge of casting, in the ...
(1898–1983). American film industry businessman
*
(1926–2010), British actor
*
Eveline Goodman-Thau
Eveline Goodman-Thau (born 1934) was the first female rabbi in Austria, a job she began in 2001. She was born in Vienna. Eveline survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in the Netherlands. She was privately ordained in Jerusalem in October ...
(born 1934), first female rabbi in Austria
*
Marty Thau
Marty Thau (December 7, 1938 – February 13, 2014) was an American rock 'n' roll entrepreneur and music producer. He was best known as the founder of indie punk— new wave label Red Star Records in 1977, and for being the manager of the New York ...
(1938–2014), American music producer
*
Zvi Thau
Zvi Yisrael Thau ( he, צבי ישראל טאו, born 1938) is a Religious Zionist rabbi, a disciple of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, and co-founder and president of Yeshivat Har Hamor in Jerusalem.
Biography
Hans (Zvi Yisrael) Thau was born in Vienna t ...
(born 1939), Israeli rabbi
*
Lea Thau (born 1971), American film director
References
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Chinese-language surnames
Jewish surnames