The surname Tew
A Welsh place surname, carried by 5,247 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T000
Origin
Welsh origin
Two possible origins: * English habitational surname from the villages of Great, Little and Duns Tew, in Oxfordshire, all from Old English tīewe (“row; lenghty object”) or tīwe (“meeting place, court”). * Welsh nickname for a fat man, from Welsh tew (“plump”).
Tew 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 5,247 people named Tew in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 58,842 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,053.
Who is named Tew
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Tew identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- Two or more races 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tew has the Soundex code T000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T000.
Other Welsh surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tew come from?
- Two possible origins: * English habitational surname from the villages of Great, Little and Duns Tew, in Oxfordshire, all from Old English tīewe (“row; lenghty object”) or tīwe (“meeting place, court”). * Welsh nickname for a fat man, from Welsh tew (“plump”).
- How common is the surname Tew?
- 5,247 people in the United States had the surname Tew in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,842 Americans. It ranked 6,470th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tew?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Tew identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Tew?
- Tew is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Tew getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,053 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,247 in 2010, up 3.8%.