Family name origins & meanings
- English : from an Old English nickname mǣw, mēaw ‘seagull’, or the same word used as a personal name, Mēawa. Compare Maw.
- English : metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of a mew, a cage for hawks and falcons, especially while moulting, from Old French mue, a derivative of muer ‘to moult’ (from Latin mutare ‘to change’).