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    The surname Crewe

    A Welsh place surname, carried by 538 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /ˈkɹu/ 1 syllable Soundex C600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Crewe is more common than 75% of them.

    Origin

    Welsh origin

    Recorded as Creu in the Domesday Book, the town's name is derived from Old Welsh criu (“weir; crossing”) (compare modern Welsh cryw).

    Crewe is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 60 Welsh surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 538 people named Crewe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 537.

    #40,610
    rank among US surnames
    538
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #38,706)

    Who is named Crewe

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    55% of people named Crewe identified as white (not Hispanic), 38% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 55%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 38%
    • Two or more races 3.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Crewes

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Bob Crewe
      American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer (1931–2014)
    • Albert Crewe
      American physicist (1927–2009)

    Notable Crewes come mostly from the United States (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Crewe

    Crewe has the Soundex code C600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C600.

    Other Welsh surnames

    All 60 Welsh surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Crewe come from?
    Recorded as Creu in the Domesday Book, the town's name is derived from Old Welsh criu (“weir; crossing”) (compare modern Welsh cryw).
    How common is the surname Crewe?
    538 people in the United States had the surname Crewe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. It ranked 40,610th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Crewe?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Crewe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 38% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Crewe?
    Bob Crewe, American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer (1931–2014), followed by Albert Crewe.
    Where is the surname Crewe most common?
    Wikidata records people named Crewe in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    How do you pronounce Crewe?
    Crewe is /ˈkɹu/, one syllable.
    What type of surname is Crewe?
    Crewe is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Crewe getting more or less common?
    More common. 537 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 538 in 2010, up 0.2%.
    What are other spellings of Crewe?
    Crew.