Kewat
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kewat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 4.1M(measured from records)
- NPNepal1 in 165
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 109K
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.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 165 (inferred from the name graph)
184,298 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kewat 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.
184,298 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only | 2021 | 184K | #19 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 323 | #12,669 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 133 | #3,028 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kewat have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 184 thousand people named Kewat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kewat.
- Where is Kewat most common?
- Kewat is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 165 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kewat?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 184,298 people named Kewat in 2021, about 1 in 165 residents.
- How common is Kewat compared with other names?
- In India, Kewat is the 656th 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/kewatThe 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, “Kewat” — the 656th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.