Meaning & origin
Yau’s family of names
In Akkadian usage, Yau has a related form in Yaua. In Japanese usage, Yau is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 様. In Japanese usage, Yau is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 洋.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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