# Crew (surname)

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

A habitational surname from Welsh.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Welsh |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,081 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,127 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 75,654 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.6% (3,900 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Crewe in Cheshire, Old Welsh criu (“weir”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Crew 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) | 68% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 26% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Crew in the United States.

## People named Crew

- Henry Crew, American physicist and astronomer (1859–1953)

## Similar surnames

Crow, Core, Carew, Cree, Cure, Craw, Creagh, Cruey, Crowe, Crewe, Carr, Curry.

## 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.