Chew (surname)


Chew is a Chinese, English or Korean surname.

Origins

As an English surname, Chew has three separate origins:
As a Chinese surname, Chew is a spelling of the pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese of a number of distinct surnames including the below ones, listed by their pronunciation in Mandarin Chinese:
As a Korean surname, Chew might be an alternative spelling of the surnames spelled Ju or Chu in the Revised Romanization of Korean.

Statistics

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 2,033 people on the island of Great Britain and 48 on the island of Ireland with the surname Chew as of 2011. In 1881 there had been 1,490 people with the surname in Great Britain, mainly in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, and Bedfordshire.
The 2010 United States census found 8,905 people with the surname Chew, making it the 3,988th-most-common name in the country. This represented a decrease in relative frequency, but an increase in absolute numbers, from 8,516 in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, about four-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, four-tenths as White, and 15% as Black. It was the 310th-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian.

People

Notable people with the surname include:

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