Dews
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈduz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dews is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Staffs. reduced form of Dewhurst , from a Lancs place-name. Compare George Dewhirst or Dews, 1757–8 in Parish Registers (Horbury, WR Yorks).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 107K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 161K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 132K
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)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Staffs. reduced form of Dewhurst , from a Lancs place-name. Compare George Dewhirst or Dews, 1757–8 in Parish Registers (Horbury, WR Yorks). The following early bearers could, however, belong with any of the other senses.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dews 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 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Dews | 1 |
| US United States | 2,067 | 1 in 161K | 2.1K | Dews | 240 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Dews | 87 |
| EG Egypt | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Dews | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Dews | 64 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Dews | 1 |
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. 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)
Dews 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 Kurdish, place, stead
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)
- Samuel Charles Dewsb. 1904entomologist 1904-1974
- George Dewsb. 1921GBCricketer and footballer (1921-2003)
- Bobby Dewsb. 1939USAmerican baseball player
- John Dewsb. 1945GBBritish speedway rider (1945-1995)
- Carlos Dewsb. 1963USAmerican writer and academic
- Morgan Dewsb. 1968USAmerican film director
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,453 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,989 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,954 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Dews mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Staffs. reduced form of Dewhurst , from a Lancs place-name. Compare George Dewhirst or Dews, 1757–8 in Parish Registers (Horbury, WR Yorks). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Dews?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈduz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dews have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Dews in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dews.
- How common is the name Dews?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,067 people named Dews in 2010, about 1 in 161 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, “Dews”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.