# Crews (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/crews/  
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 | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 24,219 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,475 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 12,748 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.5% (23,167 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /kɹuːz/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Crews 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) | 75% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 19% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Crews in the United States.

## People named Crews

- Laura Hope Crews, American actress (1879-1942)
- Frederick Crews, American literary critic and writer
- Harry Crews, American writer (1935-2012)

## Similar surnames

Cress, Creasy, Coreas, Creasey, Cruz, Craig, Cross, Church, Carrasco, Crouch, Caruso, Crook.

## 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.