Plewa: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Plewa shows up clearly in national surname statistics. Plewa ranked 32,438 in the 2010 US Census, with 709 people answering to the name. INSEE counts 162 people born in France with the Plewa surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1951–1960. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow a Plewa line back. No reliable dictionary entry explains Plewa, so any origin we give a client is traced from their own ancestors.

Wikidata records Plewa as a Polish family name.

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Plewa, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms. Want more than a summary? See the Plewa family name pack.