Tew

At the 2020 census, 5,096 Americans bore the surname Tew — 6,416th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 58,700.

By the numbers

People: 5,096
Rank: 6,416th
How common: 1 in 58,700
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

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”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

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.