Stewart - Meaning of Stewart

What does Stewart mean?

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[ 2 syll. (s)te-war(t), st-ewa-rt ] The baby boy name Stewart is pronounced STUW-erT †. Stewart's origin is Old English, and its use, English. It is from stigweard meaning 'steward' ; stig 'house' ; weard 'warden, guard'. The first name is derived from the Scottish surname, itself derived from the job title for a steward or guardian of a manor house. The first name was adopted from the start of the 19th century.

Variant forms of Stewart include the English Steward, the name Stewert, the name Stewie, and the English and Scottish Stuart.

The contracted forms Stew (English) and Stu (English) are other variants of the name.

See also the related categories, title, english, and guard (protector).

Stewart is uncommon as a baby boy name. At the modest height of its usage in 1956, 0.030% of baby boys were named Stewart. It had a ranking of #291 then. The baby name has substantially slipped in popularity since then, and is used only on an infrequent scale today. Within all boy names in its family, Stewart was nevertheless the most popular in 2018.

Baby names that sound like Stewart include Stewert, Stuart, Saterdai, Siddhart, Siddharth, Sidharth, Staffard, Steward, Stodart, Stoddard, Stoddart, Saterdae, Saterday, Saterdaye, Satordi, Saturdae, Saturdai, Saturday, Saturdaye, and Shatrujeet.

† Pronunciation for Stewart: S as in "see (S.IY)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)"