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The REW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,425 18045 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 365 12319 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1060 -5726 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 87 16084 0.001 5
United Kingdom 506 8785 0.001 11
Top States for REW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 128 8933 0.002 24
Washington 109 8715 0.002 18
Virginia 108 8493 0.002 15
Maryland 84 8850 0.002 16
Missouri 76 11639 0.001 14
Top States for REW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 20 8905 0.003 26
Wisconsin 128 8933 0.002 24
Delaware 18 9702 0.002 23
Iowa 58 10400 0.002 20
Washington 109 8715 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of REW

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the REW 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 REW 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 REW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 143 10.04
Asian/Pacific 74 5.19
White (Hispanic) 30 2.11
Mixed Race 16 1.12
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.42
White (Caucasian) 1,156 81.12

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

Meaning of REW in historical publications

REW. Rewe, a parish in Devonshire.

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 REW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as REW.

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 REW

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