The surname Grewe
A French nickname surname, carried by 1,372 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex G600
Origin
French origin
English and Irish surname from Old French grue (“crane”), a nickname for a tall and scrawny person.
Grewe is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,372 people named Grewe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 225,033 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,328.
Who is named Grewe
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Grewe identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
- Two or more races 1.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Grew
Grewe has the Soundex code G600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G600.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Grewe come from?
- English and Irish surname from Old French grue (“crane”), a nickname for a tall and scrawny person.
- How common is the surname Grewe?
- 1,372 people in the United States had the surname Grewe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,033 Americans. It ranked 19,646th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Grewe?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Grewe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Grewe?
- Grewe is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Grewe getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,328 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,372 in 2010, up 3.3%.
- What are other spellings of Grewe?
- Grew.