Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : variant of Dewar, formerly found chiefly in Lanarkshire.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of Dutch de Waart, a variant of De Weerd .
  • Possibly a variant spelling of German Deward, from an old personal name Teudoard, composed of Old High German diot ‘people’, ‘nation’ + wart- ‘observer’, ‘guard’.