Dewan Surname
Approximately 150,823 people bear this surname
Dewan Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 85,973 | 1:1,854 | 186 |
| India | 31,176 | 1:24,604 | 1,857 |
| Nepal | 15,798 | 1:1,803 | 264 |
| Pakistan | 8,545 | 1:20,906 | 1,181 |
| United States | 2,102 | 1:172,435 | 17,384 |
| Egypt | 1,037 | 1:88,656 | 7,732 |
| Saudi Arabia | 835 | 1:36,953 | 5,288 |
| Canada | 641 | 1:57,481 | 6,790 |
| United Arab Emirates | 587 | 1:15,609 | 1,892 |
| England | 517 | 1:107,772 | 11,228 |
| Iran | 441 | 1:174,110 | 14,638 |
| Indonesia | 360 | 1:367,359 | 31,549 |
| Nigeria | 344 | 1:514,950 | 25,488 |
| Australia | 273 | 1:98,885 | 11,203 |
| Kuwait | 260 | 1:14,618 | 1,974 |
| Qatar | 215 | 1:10,967 | 1,206 |
| Hong Kong | 197 | 1:37,236 | 652 |
| Malaysia | 196 | 1:150,481 | 9,410 |
| Mauritius | 179 | 1:7,226 | 1,490 |
| Afghanistan | 178 | 1:180,636 | 3,558 |
| Fiji | 126 | 1:7,098 | 1,425 |
| Singapore | 111 | 1:49,619 | 1,908 |
| Thailand | 84 | 1:840,933 | 134,389 |
| Bahrain | 73 | 1:18,474 | 3,432 |
| New Zealand | 72 | 1:62,893 | 9,679 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 52 | 1:26,230 | 2,834 |
| South Africa | 46 | 1:1,177,776 | 67,773 |
| Guyana | 42 | 1:18,148 | 2,339 |
| Germany | 39 | 1:2,064,243 | 111,952 |
| Wales | 29 | 1:106,708 | 8,358 |
| Sweden | 26 | 1:378,721 | 26,697 |
| Spain | 23 | 1:2,032,697 | 53,462 |
| Cyprus | 20 | 1:44,244 | 4,510 |
| Philippines | 19 | 1:5,328,328 | 173,877 |
| Scotland | 18 | 1:297,434 | 13,849 |
| Iraq | 16 | 1:2,188,853 | 19,343 |
| Guam | 16 | 1:10,008 | 1,526 |
| Ireland | 15 | 1:313,929 | 10,911 |
| Oman | 14 | 1:263,426 | 4,299 |
| Netherlands | 12 | 1:1,407,265 | 75,423 |
| Japan | 11 | 1:11,622,208 | 45,659 |
| Liberia | 8 | 1:551,067 | 25,208 |
| Italy | 8 | 1:7,644,586 | 115,463 |
| Cameroon | 8 | 1:2,596,134 | 118,056 |
| Norway | 8 | 1:642,786 | 47,258 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Austria | 4 | 1:2,128,859 | 91,203 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1:2,053,229 | 97,179 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Uganda | 3 | 1:13,013,093 | 160,157 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| South Korea | 3 | 1:17,080,085 | 2,793 |
| Israel | 2 | 1:4,278,817 | 136,311 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Brunei | 2 | 1:209,366 | 3,098 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Papua New Guinea | 2 | 1:4,076,858 | 165,791 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Chad | 1 | 1:13,592,199 | 13,092 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 38 | 1:116,575 | 6,975 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 19 | 1:1,282,914 | 46,315 |
| Guernsey | 1 | 1:32,656 | 2,283 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 138 | 1:363,904 | 27,584 |
Dewan (61,962) may also be a first name.
Dewan Demographics
Average Male Dewan Height
173.98 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Dewan Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dewan Come From? nationality or country of origin
Dewan (Bengali: দেওয়ান, Hindi: दीवान, Marathi: देवान, Oriya: େଦୱାନ, Tibetan: དི་ཝན་) is held by more people in Bangladesh than any other country or territory. It can be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Dewan.
How Common Is The Last Name Dewan? popularity and diffusion
It is the 3,730th most frequently occurring last name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 48,319 people. The last name Dewan is mostly found in Asia, where 96 percent of Dewan are found; 94 percent are found in South Asia and 63 percent are found in Islamic South Asia. Dewan is also the 15,462nd most commonly used first name worldwide It is held by 61,962 people.
The last name is most commonly occurring in Bangladesh, where it is borne by 85,973 people, or 1 in 1,854. Other than Bangladesh it is found in 79 countries. It is also found in India, where 21 percent live and Nepal, where 10 percent live.
Dewan Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Dewan has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Dewan surname rose 1,523 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 2,721 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it contracted 61 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Dewan Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Dewan surname is primarily Catholic (97%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Dewan last name are 7.52% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 54.29% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Dewan earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 79.16% less than the national average, earning €6,257 per year; in Norway they earn 182.82% more than the national average, earning 978,794 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 40.32% more than the national average, earning R 333,444 per year; in United States they earn 26.85% more than the national average, earning $54,735 USD per year and in Canada they earn 13.15% more than the national average, earning $56,218 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dewan Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dewan in the Bengali language | ||
| দেওয়ান | de'oyana | 98.21 |
| Dewan in the Oriya language | ||
| େଦୱାନ | edawana | 96.85 |
| େଦୱାନ୍ | edawan | 0.63 |
| Dewan in the Hindi language | ||
| दीवान | divana | 63.16 |
| दिवान | divana | 26.32 |
| देवान | devana | 6.77 |
| देवन | devana | 3.01 |
| Dewan in the Tibetan language | ||
| དི་ཝན་ | diwen | 57.89 |
| དེ་ཝན་ | déwen | 31.58 |
| བདེ་ཝན། | déwen | 5.26 |
| བདེ་ཝན་ | déwen | 5.26 |
| Dewan in the Marathi language | ||
| देवान | devana | 43.43 |
| देवन | devana | 38.38 |
| देवण | devana | 14.14 |
| देमाणा | demana | 2.02 |
| डेवन | devana | 2.02 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Dewan
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