My fathers last name b4 adoption was DePew. Is that French? Is anyone out there by that last name?

Question

My fathers last name b4 adoption was DePew. Is that French? Is anyone out there by that last name?

Answer 1

No,I doubt so.Look more like old english.But im not sure.

Answer 2

Coud be Dutch.

Answer 3

You can find that name among the French and the Dutch. You would need to do some research to find out more and also to see if the spelling of the name was changed at any point, as often happened with immigrant families. People have a tendency to want to spell things the way they hear them unfortunately which isn't very helpful when you're trying to do research.