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.
Grewe Demographics
Average Male Grewe Height
179.19 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Grewe Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Grewe Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Grewe occurs more in Germany more than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Grewe? popularity and diffusion
The surname Grewe is the 48,496th most frequent last name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 685,564 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 74 percent of Grewe live; 74 percent live in Western Europe and 73 percent live in Germanic Europe. Grewe is also the 3,159,357th most frequent first name internationally It is held by 13 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Germany, where it is carried by 7,778 people, or 1 in 10,350. In Germany it is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 53 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 19 percent live and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where 6 percent live. Beside Germany it is found in 33 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 21 percent live and South Africa, where 4 percent live.
Grewe Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Grewe has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Grewe surname grew 2,275 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it grew 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 with the Republican Party 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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