The chew Surname
chew Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from a place in Somerset named Chew Magna, which is named for the river on which it stands, a Celtic name, perhaps cognate with Welsh cyw ‘young animal or bird’, ‘chicken’.
- English: habitational name from places called Chew, in West Yorkshire and in the parish of Billington, Lancashire, named with Old English ceo ‘fish gill’, used in the transferred sense of a ravine, in a similar way to Old Norse gil.
- English: derogatory nickname from Middle English chowe ‘chough’, Old English ceo, a bird closely related to the crow and the jackdaw, notorious for its chattering and thieving.
- Korean: variant of Chu.
- Chinese
:
variant of Zhao.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Chew's from the Midlands | Leona Chew | 2 |
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