# Brew (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/brew/  
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 | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,010 |
| US rank (2010) | 14,775 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 153,605 people |
| Change since 2000 | -3.7% (2,088 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Brugha (“descendant of the farmer”), from brughaire (“farmer”), from brugh (“land”) + -aire. * As a Manx surname, Anglicized from MacVriw, from breitheamh (“deemster”); see Brain. * As a German and Alemannic German surname, Americanized from Breu, Breuer.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Brew 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) | 72% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 23% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Brew in the United States.

## People named Brew

- Derrick Brew, American athletics competitor

## Similar surnames

Bare, Brey, Brow, Brea, Bree, Berry, Bauer, Boyer, Barry, Barr, Bray, Bower.

## 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.