Rawat is a surname used by Kshatriya-Rajputs mainly in Uttrakhand and Rajasthan as they are descendants of Rajputs.In Past Rawat was a title given to "A warrior who can fought with 10 elephant infantry's at once" or someone who can use fought with 2 swords. They must have to come under 36 kuls(clans) of Rajputana ex:Rathod,Chauhan,Sisodia,Chand,Katoch etc,many uses their kul(clan) as their surname but some uses it as just a clan.Kumaoni Rawats are descendants of Rathod clan and Garhwali Rawats are descendants of Chauhan clan.
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Singh means lion,Singh is a surname used by Kshatriya-Rajputs as their middle name ex:"Xyz Singh Xyz" later every male Sikh started using Singh as their surnames but sikh rajputs as they were descendants from hindu rajputs
Prithviraj Singh Chauhan
Maharana Pratap Singh Sisodiya
Maharaj Jaswant Singh Sathore
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