Grewe Surname
Approximately 10,630 people bear this surname
Grewe Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the grew.' 'Grew, a greyhound. North' (Halliwell). It is worth noticing, however, that my instances are from Yorkshire. Henry III in 1350 spent his Christmas at York. In the expenditure for that visit appears the provision of '7000 fowls, 1750 partridges, 125 swans, 115 'grues' (an unknown bird), 125 peacocks, 290 pheasants,' &c.
Read More About This SurnameGrewe Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 7,778 | 1:10,350 | 1,302 |
| United States | 2,184 | 1:165,961 | 16,846 |
| South Africa | 397 | 1:136,468 | 15,793 |
| Senegal | 36 | 1:404,982 | 1,935 |
| Brazil | 35 | 1:6,116,409 | 148,801 |
| Switzerland | 30 | 1:273,764 | 22,252 |
| Indonesia | 27 | 1:4,898,118 | 234,077 |
| Canada | 25 | 1:1,473,824 | 101,190 |
| Australia | 23 | 1:1,173,726 | 64,589 |
| England | 17 | 1:3,277,533 | 109,658 |
| Sweden | 14 | 1:703,340 | 52,204 |
| Denmark | 11 | 1:513,156 | 32,022 |
| Venezuela | 7 | 1:4,314,868 | 39,591 |
| Norway | 7 | 1:734,612 | 50,907 |
| Czechia | 5 | 1:2,126,694 | 115,412 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| New Zealand | 4 | 1:1,132,081 | 47,619 |
| Austria | 4 | 1:2,128,859 | 91,203 |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1:5,629,059 | 132,535 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Tonga | 1 | 1:107,313 | 791 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Montserrat | 1 | 1:4,947 | 471 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 6 | 1:4,062,562 | 101,150 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 96 | 1:523,111 | 36,402 |
Grewe (13) may also be a first name.
Grewe Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the grew.' 'Grew, a greyhound. North' (Halliwell). It is worth noticing, however, that my instances are from Yorkshire. Henry III in 1350 spent his Christmas at York. In the expenditure for that visit appears the provision of '7000 fowls, 1750 partridges, 125 swans, 115 'grues' (an unknown bird), 125 peacocks, 290 pheasants,' &c.; v. Miss Holt's paper in Christmas number of The Fireside, 1887. As every other bird in the list is a familiar surname to-day, there is no reason why the 'grue' should not be the same.
Johannes Grewe, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Johanna Grewe, 1379: ibid.
Agnes Grewe, 1379: ibid.
(Anglo-French-Latin) a nickname or sign-name from the Crane [Frenchgrue, Latin grus, gruis, a crane] (English) a Northern Dialectal variant of Grey, q.v. Grew is a Northern word for ‘greyhound,’ which is pron. (in Lancashire,for example) grewnt or gruant— Why, yoad’n be os gaunt os o grewnt, on welly fammisht.—J. Collier, Works, p. 59.
1. A greyhound. North. (Old people in Sussex say grewhound.) 2. An old Scotticism for grove is greue. Jamieson.
From grew, a crane. compare Killigrew, Pettigrew.
(Br. and Welsh.) A crane.
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Grewe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Grewe Come From? nationality or country of origin
Grewe occurs more in Germany more than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Grewe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Grewe is the 48,496th most common surname globally It is held by around 1 in 685,564 people. Grewe occurs predominantly in Europe, where 74 percent of Grewe live; 74 percent live in Western Europe and 73 percent live in Germanic Europe. It is also the 3,159,357th most frequently held first name on earth, borne by 13 people.
The last name is most frequently used in Germany, where it is borne by 7,778 people, or 1 in 10,350. In Germany Grewe is mostly concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 53 percent are found, Lower Saxony, where 19 percent are found and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 6 percent are found. Excluding Germany Grewe exists in 33 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 21 percent are found and South Africa, where 4 percent are found.
Grewe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Grewe has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Grewe last name rose 2,275 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 283 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Grewe Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Grewe surname are 4.51% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 51.28% being registered with the political party.
The amount Grewe earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 62.96% more than the national average, earning 563,984 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 62.09% more than the national average, earning R 385,176 per year; in United States they earn 9.34% more than the national average, earning $47,180 USD per year and in Canada they earn 12.8% less than the national average, earning $43,325 CAD per year.
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