Drew

At the 2020 census, 22,649 Americans bore the surname Drew — 1,544th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,200.

By the numbers

People: 22,649
Rank: 1,544th
How common: 1 in 13,200
Per 100,000: 7.6

Where the name comes from

From Irish, adopted from the English surname above, and also reduced from an Druaidh, Ó Druaidh, Ó Draoi, "descendant of the Druid", from draoi (“druid”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.1%
Black, not Hispanic 17.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Drew

Jeff Van Drew (born 1953)New Jersey State Senator

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

Surnames like Drew

Also a first name

Drew has been given to 88,085 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1985. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.