Dewar

At the 2020 census, 2,747 Americans bore the surname Dewar — 11,048th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 109,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,747
Rank: 11,048th
How common: 1 in 109,000
Per 100,000: 0.92

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic deòradh (“pilgrim, stranger”), an occupational surname for a custodian of holy relics. It could also be an habitational surname, from Dewar, Scottish Borders. The flask is named for James Dewar, who is credited with its invention.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dewar described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.2%
Black, not Hispanic 16.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Dewar

James Dewar (1842–1923)Scottish chemist and physicist
Donald Dewar (1937–2000)Scottish politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (in office from 1999 to 2000)
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar (1864–1930)Scottish distiller and politician

People named Dewar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dewar

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.