Show ContentsDewall History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Dewall Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Wall, Walle, Wal, Vanderwall, Vanderwalle and others.

Dewall Ranking

In the United States, the name Dewall is the 10,098th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1


United States Dewall migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Dewall Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
  • Edward Dewall, who arrived in Virginia in 1640 2
Dewall Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • N Dewall, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1851 2

Australia Dewall migration to Australia +

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Dewall Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
  • Mr. Thomas Dewall who was convicted in Warwick, Warwickshire, England for 7 years, transported aboard the "Elizabeth" on 3rd October 1831, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) 3

Contemporary Notables of the name Dewall (post 1700) +

  • Robert B. DeWall, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1956 4


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 9th March 2022). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/elizabeth
  4. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 17) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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