Dewar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘person from Dewar’, Midlothian; (ii) ‘official charged with the care of holy relics’ (Gaelic deoradh ‘pilgrim, sojourner’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/duːəɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dewar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 22K
- CACanada≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dewar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #374 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
386,385 named Tiwari
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tiwari in IN India, ID Indonesia, GY Guyana.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) ‘person from Dewar’, Midlothian; (ii) ‘official charged with the care of holy relics’ (Gaelic deoradh ‘pilgrim, sojourner’).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dewar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #64 | 386,385as Tiwari | 1 in 3.4K | 386K | Tiwari | 305 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Tiwari | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 329 | Dewar | 188 |
| US United States | — | 2,833 | 1 in 117K | 4.8K | Dewar | 319 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1 | Dewar | 170 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | Dewar | 159 |
| GY Guyana | #451 | 197as Tiwari | 1 in 3.8K | 197 | Tiwari | 6 |
386,385 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dewar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Gaelic Deoir/Deoireach ‘pilgrim, sojourner’, or from Dewar (Midlothian); first attested Thomas de Deware 1296 CalSc (Edinburgh)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, From Gaelic deoir “pilgrim”; via deòradh “keeper of a sacred object”. Recorded as landholders at Heriot, Midlothian, 1296.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Dewarb. 1842GBScottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923)
- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewarb. 1864GBScottish distiller and politician (1864-1930)
- Henry Dewarb. 1883NZNew Zealand rugby union footballer (1883-1915)
- James Dewarb. 1897USAmerican baker, inventor of the Twinkie (1897-1985)
- Neil Dewarb. 1908GBScottish footballer (1908-1982)
- Marion Dewarb. 1928CACanadian politician (1928–2008)
- Donald Dewarb. 1937GBScottish politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (in office from 1999 to 2000)
- Jim Dewarb. 1942GBScottish singer and bassist (1942–2002)
- John Dewarb. 1959AUAustralian legal scholar, university administrator (born 1959)
- Paul Dewarb. 1963CACanadian politician (1963–2019)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,168 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,900 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #55,133 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 24 | #601 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 19 | #82,865 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #3,035 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #17,648 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #4,731 |
| GB United Kingdom | Scottish Surnames (Ross, 1994) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dewar mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘person from Dewar’, Midlothian; (ii) ‘official charged with the care of holy relics’ (Gaelic deoradh ‘pilgrim, sojourner’). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Dewar?
- A machine transcription gives /duːəɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dewar have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 386 thousand people named Tiwari, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dewar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,833 people named Dewar in 2010, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Dewar compared with other names?
- In India, Dewar is the 64th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dewarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dewar” — the 64th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.