Chew

At the 2020 census, 8,455 Americans bore the surname Chew — 4,073rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 35,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,455
Rank: 4,073rd
How common: 1 in 35,400
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, Chew has a number of separate origins:.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Chew described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 38.2%
White, not Hispanic 36.5%
Black, not Hispanic 14.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Chew

Shou Zi Chew (born 1983)Singaporean businessman, CEO of TikTok
Geoffrey Chew (1924–2019)American theoretical physicist
Phillip Chew (born 1994)badminton player

People named Chew with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Chew

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.