# Bywater (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bywater/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,032 |
| US rank (2010) | 24,305 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 299,172 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.5% (988 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From by + water, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a lake or river.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bywater in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Similar surnames

Boyter, Boudreau, Bader, Beaudry, Butera, Bitter, Bauder, Botero, Batra, Bator, Bhattarai, Bitar.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.