Sau
Meaning
elegant, outstanding (秀)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Sau has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
567 people · the #12,256 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 333,333 · median age 36
Among people named Sau living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 49 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Sau deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Sau truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Sau fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Sau travels
Samoan · traditionally linked to Samoan chiefly title terminology; precise meaning debated
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