Given name & surname · also Chinese
Au
“Thursday”
Au is a surname from Cantonese, ultimately from German.
Original GermanAuer
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Au comes from Cantonese, and ultimately from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Au’s family of names
In English usage, Au as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with AO. In Japanese usage, Au is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 央. In German usage, Au as a surname has a related form in AUE.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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