Blew Family Crest and Last Name Background

Blew is a spelling of the Scottish surname Blue. Name scholars give the meaning as “Blue”.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Blue and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

A variant of Blue

Before spelling was fixed, Blue was also written Blew. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

The 2010 census count for Blew in the United States was 705, good for rank 32,599. Get the complete Blew report, with a museum-style coat of arms.