Askew
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Aiskew’, Yorkshire, meaning ‘oak-tree wood’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Askew is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 18Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 410 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
13,683 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)‘Person from Aiskew’, Yorkshire, meaning ‘oak-tree wood’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Askew 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 | 13,683 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Askew | 410 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Askew | 188 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Askew | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Askew | 9 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Askew | 8 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Askew | 121 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Askew | 45 |
| IS Iceland | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Askew | 6 |
13,683 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. 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)Askew 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 Aiskew, North Riding of Yorkshire; first attested William de Aykescoghe 1366 SRLa
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Turned or twisted to one side.
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)- Anne Askewb. 1521GBEnglish Protestant martyr
- Margaret Fellb. 1614GBnot in their usual nameco-founder of the Religious Society of Friends
- Reubin Askewb. 1928USAmerican politician (1928-2014)
- Luke Askewb. 1932USAmerican actor (1932–2012)
- Johnny Gentleb. 1936GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer
- Sonny Askewb. 1957USAmerican soccer player-coach
- Billy Askewb. 1959GBEnglish footballer (born 1959)
- Vincent Askewb. 1966USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Oliver Askewb. 1996USAmerican racing driver
- Dakota Askewactor
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,634 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,692 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Askew mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Aiskew’, Yorkshire, meaning ‘oak-tree wood’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Askew have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Askew, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled askew.
- How common is the name Askew?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,683 people named Askew in 2010, about 1 in 24 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/askewThe 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, “Askew”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.