Hau
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hau has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 1983. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2013, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% boys, 24% girls all-time.
Babies named Hau, 2018
1 in 391,000
Hau over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Hau over time
In 2020, Hau went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Hau?
Hau had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 391,000
- 9 of 3,516,853 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 202,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 270,856 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hau sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 270,856 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hau. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Haus were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hau was born before 1993 — so the typical Hau is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 49.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 109
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (42).
Is Hau rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2013 (12)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.7% average annual change
Hau around the world
Where Hau ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1984–1984#2,491in 1984
- South Australia1993–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Hau by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Hau
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hau
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.