Tiwari
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tiwari is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Hindi तिवारी (tivārī), Nepali तिवारी (tiwārī).
- INIndia1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 18Kas Dewar
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 22Kas Dewar
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 Tiwari 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)
- #374 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
386,385 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dewar in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 1 more.
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)
Transliteration of Hindi तिवारी (tivārī), Nepali तिवारी (tiwārī).
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tiwari 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 | #64 | 386,385 | 1 in 3.4K | 386K | Tiwari | 305 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Tiwari | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 329 | Dewar | 188 |
| US United States | — | 2,833as Dewar | 1 in 117K | 4.8K | Dewar | 319 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1 | Dewar | 170 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | Dewar | 159 |
| GY Guyana | #451 | 197 | 1 in 3.8K | 197 | Tiwari | 6 |
386,385 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Noopur Tiwarib. 1901INIndian journalist and activist
- Chandra Shekhar Azadb. 1906INnot in their usual nameIndian activist and socialist and revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer (1906–1931)
- B. P. Tiwarib. 1911INIndian military officer and politician
- Maya Tiwarib. 1952GYHolistic author and peace leader
- Nitesh Tiwarib. 1953INIndian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist
- Siddhartha Paul Tiwarib. 1979INAcademic, Technologist, Researcher
- Ashwiny Iyer Tiwarib. 1979INIndian filmmaker and writer
- Shweta Tiwarib. 1980INIndian film and television actress
- Indira Tiwarib. 1992INIndian actress
- Pawan TiwariINIndian filmmaker
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 386K | #62 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17K | #82 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 899 | #25,735 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 329 | #15,359 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 197 | #428 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Tiwari mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of Hindi तिवारी (tivārī), Nepali तिवारी (tiwārī). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Tiwari have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 386 thousand people named Tiwari, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiwari.
- Where is Tiwari most common?
- Tiwari is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tiwari?
- In India, the national register counted 386,385 people named Tiwari, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Tiwari compared with other names?
- In India, Tiwari is the 64th 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/tiwariThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tiwari” — the 64th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.