Surname statistics for Dewar

There are approximately 6,450 people named Dewar in the UK. That makes it the 1,641th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 102 are named Dewar.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)64501641N/A102
United Kingdom (1881 census)390611630.013130
Change since 1881+2544-478-0.003-28
Other Countries
United States268010900N/A10
Australia11881391N/A73

Top male forenames

David Dewar
John Dewar
James Dewar
Ian Dewar
Michael Dewar
William Dewar
Peter Dewar
Alan Dewar
Andrew Dewar
Mark Dewar
Neil Dewar
Graeme Dewar
Robert Dewar
Iain Dewar
Alexander Dewar
Craig Dewar
Steven Dewar
Richard Dewar
Alastair Dewar
Derek Dewar

Top female forenames

Jacqueline Dewar
Jane Dewar
Helen Dewar
Laura Dewar
Margaret Dewar
Karen Dewar
Fiona Dewar
Alison Dewar
Susan Dewar
Christine Dewar
Sheila Dewar
Lesley Dewar
Judith Dewar
Caroline Dewar
Hilary Dewar
Kirsty Dewar
Lorraine Dewar
Michelle Dewar
Angela Dewar
Linda Dewar

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.