Dhawan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Punjabi
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Dhawan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 30Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 91Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 110K
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 Dhawan 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
7,998 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, 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 from Punjabi.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dhawan 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 | 7,998 | 1 in 166K | 8K | Dhawan | 206 |
| US United States | 868 | 1 in 383K | 1.3K | Dhawan | 243 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Dhawan | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Dhawan | 16 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Dhawan | 47 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Dhawan | 70 |
| AU Australia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Dhawan | 90 |
| FI Finland | 48 | 1 in 116K | 48 | — | 3 |
7,998 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Satish Dhawanb. 1920INformer ISRO Chairman
- Prem Dhawanb. 1923INHindi film lyricist
- David Dhawanb. 1955INIndian film director (born 1951)
- Nikita Dhawanb. 1972INIndian professor
- Sacha Dhawanb. 1984GBBritish actor
- Rohit Dhawanb. 1986INIndian film director (born 1983)
- Varun Dhawanb. 1987INIndian actor (born 1987)
- Anil Dhawanb. 2000INresearcher
- Sanika Dhawan Guravb. 2005AEbadminton player
- Erica DhawanUSAmerican writer, public speaker, and business consultant
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Dhawan mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dhawan have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Dhawan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dhawan.
- How common is the name Dhawan?
- In India, the national register counted 7,998 people named Dhawan, about 1 in 166 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dhawanThe 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, “Dhawan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.