Chew Family History
Chew Surname Meaning
English (Gloucestershire): habitational name from any of the places in Somerset named Chew Magna or Chew Stoke, which is named for the river on which it stands, a Celtic name perhaps cognate with Welsh cyw ‘young animal or bird, chicken’. English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from any of the places called Chew in Yorkshire and in the parish of Billington, Lancashire, possibly named with Old English cēo ‘fish gill’, used in the transferred sense of a ravine in a similar way to Old Norse gil.
English: nickname from Old English cīo, cēo denoting any of the smaller chattering species of crow, especially the red-billed chough. Korean: variant of Chu.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 周, based on the Teochew pronunciation. See Zhou.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 鄒; see Zou.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 秋, based on the Teochew pronunciation. See Qiu.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022