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The FEW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,321 12288 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 572 8670 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1749 -3618 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 73 18632 0 4
United Kingdom 868 5890 0.002 19
Top States for FEW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 336 3034 0.004 41
Texas 225 8747 0.001 11
South Carolina 203 3030 0.005 51
Ohio 191 7705 0.002 17
Florida 152 12782 0.001 10
Top States for FEW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 203 3030 0.005 51
Georgia 336 3034 0.004 41
Oklahoma 90 5190 0.003 26
Alabama 101 5053 0.002 23
Maryland 111 5696 0.002 21

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FEW live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FEW represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FEW in Georgia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FEW by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FEW

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FEW surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FEW surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FEW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 721 31.06
Mixed Race 48 2.07
Asian/Pacific 27 1.16
White (Hispanic) 22 0.95
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.39
White (Caucasian) 1,494 64.37

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FEW surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FEW in historical publications

FEW. Under the feudal system a feu Avas a dependency, or something held by tenure. The holder was sometimes called afeiiar.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FEW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FEW.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FEW

The following words are slight variants of FEW that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.