Dąw

given name · Latin script

Dąw is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 99th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English dawe, from Old English dāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *dāhā, from Proto-Germanic *dēhǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰākʷ-.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 6.6K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 125K
  • FIFinland1 in 242K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,670 people, 2010

Sources
63 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Daw in US United States, MM Myanmar (Burma), IN India.

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)

Derivation of Dąw: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dąw
  1. Middle Englishdawe(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishdāwe(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*dāhā(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*dēhǭ(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰākʷ-(measured from records)

From Middle English dawe, from Old English dāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *dāhā, from Proto-Germanic *dēhǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰākʷ-. See also German Dahle, Dohle, dialectal Tach; also Old Prussian doacke (“starling”).

Sources 5

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dąw 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.

Where Dąw is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,6701 in 125K2.7KDaw63
GY Guyana—1141 in 6.6K114——
BR Brazil—481 in 4.4M48——
IN India—381 in 35M38Daw6
ES Spain—311 in 1.6M31—3
FI Finland—231 in 242K25—1
CH Switzerland—71 in 1.2M7——
DK Denmark—51 in 1.2M5——
MM Myanmar (Burma)#99———Daw40

2,670 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dąw under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dąw mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English dawe, from Old English dāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *dāhā, from Proto-Germanic *dēhǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰākʷ-. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
Is Dąw a male or female name?
Dąw is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Dąw have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Dąw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daw.
Where is Dąw most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dąw is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 6.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dąw?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,670 people named Dąw in 2010, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
How common is Dąw compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Dąw is the 99th most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Dąw” — the 99th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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