Dawe
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dawe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In English, recorded as A surname transferred from the given name.
- CACanada≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 25K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A surname transferred from the given name.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Dawe is read(measured from records)
Dawe is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English84%
A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Welsh7.7%
soft mutation of Tawe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dawe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Dawe | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Dawe | 176 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Dawe | 157 |
| US United States | 1,751 | 1 in 190K | 1.8K | Dawe | 290 |
| IN India | 1,292 | 1 in 1M | 1.3K | Dawe | 27 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Dawe | 132 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Dawe | 34 |
| IE Ireland | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Dawe | 16 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Dawe is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bfg, wire
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Philip Daweb. 1730GBBritish artist (1730–1832)
- George Daweb. 1781GBBritish artist (1781-1829)
- Henry Daweb. 1790GBBritish artist (1790-1848)
- William Carlton Daweb. 1865AUAustralian writer
- Billie Daweb. 1924CACanadian ice hockey player (1924-2013)
- Bruce Daweb. 1930AUAustralian poet
- Gerald Daweb. 1952IENorthern Irish poet (1952–2024)
- Jason Daweb. 1967GBBritish motoring journalist
- Gabriel Daweb. 1973MXMexican artist
- Nathan Daweb. 1994GBEnglish DJ and Music Producer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,427 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,023 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,540 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.3K | #4,491 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 60 | #1,916 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 42 | #971 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Dawe mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname transferred from the given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dawe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Dawe in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dawe.
- How common is the name Dawe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,751 people named Dawe in 2010, about 1 in 190 thousand residents.
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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, “Dawe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.