Crew

• English:/kɹu/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Crew, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Gage
• Drew
• Beau
• Hayes
• Brooks

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Crew is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Spain, Colombia

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Crëw, Crêẅ, Créw, C̶r̶e̶w̶

• Lao surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Malaysia

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Crëw, Créw, Ćŕêw, Çrew

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Crew is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, from Crew, Cumberland, or Crewe, Cheshire; first attested Thomas de Crue 13th WhC

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, A group of people together

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

• Henry Crewb. 1859USAmerican physicist and astronomer (1859–1953)
• Carl Crewb. 1961USAmerican actor and circus performer
• Amanda Crewb. 1986CACanadian 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).

20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Crew mean, and where does it come from?

person from Crewe, Cheshire, meaning ‘place by the fish trap’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How do you pronounce Crew?

In English /kɹu/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Crew?

Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Crew in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crew. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.

What are other forms of the name Crew?

In the etymology graph, Crue is a form of the same name in other languages.

How common is the name Crew?

In the United States, the national register counted 4,081 people named Crew in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.