Carew
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Carew’, name of various places in Wales (‘castle-hill’); pronounced as spelled or ‘Carey’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/cʰɛɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carew is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Carew’, name of various places in Wales (‘castle-hill’); pronounced as spelled or ‘Carey’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Carew 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, from the Pembrokeshire fortress/place-name Carew (Caeriw); family associated with Pembrokeshire and Ireland
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In English, from Carew, Pembroke, or for CAREY; first attested Alice Careu c1147–57 MCh
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
places in Wales, so called from W caer fort + rhiw hill, slope, or just possibly from caerau, pi. of caer fort. It is also possible that the surname in some cases may derive from the cogn. Corn, kerrow (pi. of ker), which occurs seven times as a placename in Cornwall. Var.: Carey. Carey i. Welsh and Cornish: var. of C.arew. 2. English: habitation name from one of the minor places in Devon
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Thomas, English poet; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, town, castle, Wales
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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)
- Nicholas Carewb. 1496GBEnglish politician (1496-1539)
- Thomas Carewb. 1594GBEnglish poet
- Benjamin Hallowell Carewb. 1761USRoyal Navy admiral (1761-1834)
- James Carewb. 1876USAmerican stage and film actor (1876-1938)
- Ora Carewb. 1893USAmerican actress (1893–1955)
- Mary Carewb. 1913USathletics competitor (1913-2002)
- Rod Carewb. 1945PAAmerican baseball player and coach
- Stan Carewb. 1950CACanadian actor, musician, broadcaster and television presenter
- John Carewb. 1979NONorwegian association football player
- Ashley Carewb. 1985GBBritish footballer (born 1985)
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,817 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,971 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 109 | #516 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #34,892 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #28,271 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #56,595 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Carew mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Carew’, name of various places in Wales (‘castle-hill’); pronounced as spelled or ‘Carey’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Carew?
- A machine transcription gives /cʰɛɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Carew have the most bearers?
- Carew is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carew”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.