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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Welsh : nickname for a fat man, from tew ‘plump’.
  • English : habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire (Great, Little and Duns Tew), named with an Old English tīewe ‘row’, ‘ridge’. The surname has been established in Ireland since the 16th century.

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