Given name & surname

Thew

“thrall, slave”

Thew is a surname from Middle English.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Thew goes back to Middle English thew, meaning “thrall, slave.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Thew comes from Middle English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Middle English thew (“thrall, slave”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Thew’s family of names

Thew may belong to the same name family as TTHEW. This is a tentative spelling connection.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

If you love Thew, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Middle English

Theedom

“prosperity, success”

No U.S. birth series

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Biblical Hebrew · Biblical

Jew

“Judean (i.e. Jew)”

No U.S. birth series

92% boys · 8% girls

Middle English

New

“at the yew”

No U.S. birth series

52% boys · 48% girls

Irish

Thynne

“dark”

No U.S. birth series

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Old French

Pardew

“by”

No U.S. birth series

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Middle English

Trow

“faithful, loyal”

No U.S. birth series

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Old Norse

Thorold

“follower of Thor”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Middle English

Straw

Straw is a surname from Middle English.

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Thew’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.