How common is the surname Trew?

1,028 people in the United States had the surname Trew in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 300,336 Americans. It ranked 24,370th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Trew?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Trew identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Trew getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,110 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,028 in 2010, down 7.4%.

The surname Trew

A surname, carried by 1,028 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex T600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Trew is more common than 85% of them.

Origin

Variant of Trow.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,028 people named Trew in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 300,336 Americans. That is down 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,110.

#24,370

rank among US surnames

1,028

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-7.4%

change since 2000 (was #21,832)

Who is named Trew

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

93% of people named Trew identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Trew

Trew has the Soundex code T600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T600.

Questions

Where does the surname Trew come from?: Variant of Trow.
How common is the surname Trew?: 1,028 people in the United States had the surname Trew in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 300,336 Americans. It ranked 24,370th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Trew?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Trew identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Trew getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,110 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,028 in 2010, down 7.4%.