Dew

Locally spelled Devu in IN India, ID Indonesia, VN Vietnam.

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.

• English:/d(j)uː/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Dew, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Blue
• Adolf
• Cherry
• Brook
• California

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Dew is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Colombia

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Dêw, Déw

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Dew is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, from Eu (Seine-Maritime), or OE dēaw ‘dew’, or Welsh dhu ‘dark, swarthy’; first attested William Deu 1200 Pleas (W)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, lugbu, ningiya

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Mende Language

• In Akan, a, s, de. o-dew, siocetncss, agreeablencss, pleasantness; agreeable taste, taste fulness, relish; flavour; j^leasure, joy, cmnfort, benefit; wosom Nyame yiye a, wobete mu dew, if you serve God well, you will have the benefit of it, you will see how happy it will majce you

  as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

• In Akan, V, to flare, flame, blaze; ogyaredew, tlicfireis blazing; dew bayi, to exercise or practise tvitclicraft; to bewitch; 5. obayifo; odew 8e okanea, fig. he is very lively, active in his business <&c

  as a word·Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Walter Dewb. 1863GBBritish police officier (1863–1947)
• Eddie Dewb. 1909USAmerican actor and director (1909-1972)
• John Atcherley Dewb. 1948NZRoman Catholic archbishop (born 1948)

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).

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Dew mean, and where does it come from?

(i) ‘person from (de) Eu’, northern France; (ii) ‘person who lives by damp ground’; (iii) from a Welsh nickname for a fat person. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How do you pronounce Dew?

In English /d(j)uː/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people named Dew?

Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Devu in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, United States, Vietnam and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Dew?

In the United States, the national register counted 121 people named Dew in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.