Tëw
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tëw is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English tewen, a variant of tawen (“to taw, prepare”). More at taw.
- USUnited States1 in 63K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
5,247 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tew in US United States.
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)From Middle English tewen, a variant of tawen (“to taw, prepare”). More at taw.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Welsh Surnames
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tëw 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 | 5,247 | 1 in 63K | 5.2K | Tew | 13 |
| ES Spain | 26 | 1 in 1.9M | 26 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
5,247 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tëw mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English tewen, a variant of tawen (“to taw, prepare”). More at taw. Recorded by Welsh Surnames and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Tëw a male or female name?
- Tëw is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tëw have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Tëw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tew.
- Where is Tëw most common?
- Tëw is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 63 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tëw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,247 people named Tëw in 2010, about 1 in 63 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/t%C3%ABwThe 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, “Tëw”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.