Family name Atwater (Atwater 
) , all around the world, is quite a rare surname. The cognomen Atwater is characteristic of the United States, where it is quite a rare surname, Canada, where it is a rare surname, and New Zealand. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
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| Atwater | United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Colombia, Canada |
| william atwater English bishop (b. 1440) |
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| david atwater American colonist (b. 1615) |
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| jonathan atwater 12 Jul 1656 New Haven, Connecticut - 3 Jun 1726 New Haven, Connecticut (b. 1656) |
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| jonathan atwater 4 Nov 1690 New Haven, Connecticut - 27 Dec 1760 New Haven, Connecticut (b. 1690) |
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| james atwater 15 Mar 1697/1698 New Haven, CT - 10 Jul 1766 New Haven (b. 1697) |
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| isaac atwater 21 Oct 1718 New Haven, Connecticut - 7 Oct 1770 New Haven (b. 1718) |
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caleb atwater American politician, US (b. 1778) |
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| timothy atwater 2 Nov 1749 New Haven, CT - 5 Mar 1824 New Haven (b. 1749) |
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| noah atwater (1752-1802), US (b. 1752) |
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edwin atwater Canadian businessman and politician (1808-1874), US (b. 1808) |
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| esther atwater 16 Jul 1759 - 16 Aug 1836 New Haven, Connecticut (b. 1759) |
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| reuben atwater American politician, US (b. 1768) |
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| jeremiah atwater American academic administrator, US (b. 1773) |
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| james atwater British Royal Navy officer, commander in 1834 (1774-?) (b. 1774) |
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wilbur olin atwater American agricultural chemist; developer of the respiration calorimeter., US (b. 1844) |
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