Landau History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Etymology of Landau

What does the name Landau mean?

The Jewish name Landau is generally thought to be a habitational surname, derived from the Bavarian town of Landau, or "Lande" in Yiddish. When the town expelled its Jews in 1545, most of the refugees moved to Prague, which is where the name first appears in records.

Landau Ranking

In the United States, the name Landau is the 10,607^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Landau migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Landau Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Onesippe Landau, who arrived in New York, NY in 1844 2
Albert Landau, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1851
Elisabeth Landau, aged 26, who landed in New York in 1854 2
Louis Landau, who settled in Philadelphia in 1878
Lubush Landau, who arrived in Arkansas in 1894 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Landau (post 1700) +

Jon Landau (1960-2024), American film producer who won an Academy Award for Best Picture for producing James Cameron's disaster film Titanic (1997)
William M. Landau (1924-2017), American professor of neurology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Martin Landau (1928-2017), Oscar-winning American film and television actor, perhaps best known for his starring role in "Mission Impossible"
Stephen Gerald Landau (b. 1943), American psychiatrist
Jacob Landau (b. 1917), American prominent artist and professor of Graphic Arts
George Landau (b. 1920), American Ambassador to Paraguay since 1972
Sonia Landau, American Republican politician, Candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 18th District, 1976
Henry Landau, American politician, Member of New York State Assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1926
Gustave J. Landau, American Republican politician, Candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 12th District, 1930
George Walter Landau (b. 1920), American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, 1972-77; Chile, 1977-82; Venezuela, 1982-85
... (Another 4 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)