Blew Family History
Blew Name Meaning
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Blau ‘blue’. Compare Blue . English: nickname either from Middle English bleu blew(e) ‘dark-skinned’ ‘bluish grey; discoloured by bruising’ ‘sad’ or from the derived noun which denoted a type of blue woolen cloth and may have been applied to someone who manufactured the cloth or who wore garments made of it. The word was borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman French where it had various recorded senses including ‘blue’ and ‘fair (-haired)’. Compare Blewett .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022