Jew
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ethnic name for a Jew, from Middle English jeu ‘Jew’, Old French giu
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Jew is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 235 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ethnic name for a Jew, from Middle English jeu ‘Jew’, Old French giu.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jew counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.4K | Jew | 235 |
| IN India | — | 2 | — | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | 1 | — | 33 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jew is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An adherent of Judaism.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, jewu or yewu; plu., def. st., jewisia
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In English, Chinese possibly a variant of Zhao.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, from a short form of Julian.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, possibly a variant of Zhou.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ju Jeung-ryub. 1926KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (1926-1980)
- Joo Hyunb. 1941KRnot in their usual nameactor
- Joo Jin-mob. 1958KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 1958)
- Joo Jin-mob. 1974KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor born 1974
- Joo Sang-wookb. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Ju Ji-hoonb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Joo Woo-jaeb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean model, Actor
- Joo Min-kyungb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Ju Se-jongb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- Joo Hae-eunb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,373 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,901 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #5,537 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jew mean, and where does it come from?
- ethnic name for a Jew, from Middle English jeu ‘Jew’, Old French giu. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Jew have the most bearers?
- Jew is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled jew.
What do you want to know about Jew?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jewThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jew”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.