Rew
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dweller by the row of houses or in the street; from ME rew, OE; first attested Robert ate Rewe 1297 MinAcctCo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rew is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 375Kas Reo(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 464Kas Reo
- USUnited States1 in 550Kas Reo
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rew itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 375K (inferred from the name graph)
605 named Reo, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana, as Reo
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เรวั in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dweller by the row of houses or in the street; from ME rew, OE; first attested Robert ate Rewe 1297 MinAcctCo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rew counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 605as Reo | 1 in 550K | 1.4K | Rew | 14 |
| TH Thailand | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 680K | #932,416 | เรวั | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | 15as Rewi | 1 in 1.2M | 15 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 12as Reo | 1 in 464K | 45 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3as Reo | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2as Reo | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
605 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling reo. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Rew 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, Obsolete or dialectal form of row
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of rhew (“frost, ice”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of rewe (“rue”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zza, early (at a time before expected)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, ice, frost
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Robert Henry Rewb. 1858British statistician
- Noel Ackroyd Rewb. 1880GBarchitect
- Charles Rewb. 1898GBBritish rower
- Kimberley Rewb. 1951GBEnglish composer, songwriter and musician
- Quentin Rewb. 1984NZNew Zealand racewalker
- James Rewb. 2004GBEnglish cricketer (born 2004)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,835 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #378,666 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Rew mean, and where does it come from?
- dweller by the row of houses or in the street; from ME rew, OE; first attested Robert ate Rewe 1297 MinAcctCo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Rew?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹu/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rew have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 605 people named Reo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rew most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Rew itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 375 thousand people named Reo.
- How common is the name Rew?
- In the United States, the national register counted 605 people named Reo in 2020, about 1 in 550 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rewThe 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, “Rew”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.