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The ALLAWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 368 52827 0 1
United States (1880 census) 108 29803 0 2
Change since 1880 +260 -23024 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 132 11158 0.001 8
United Kingdom 961 5422 0.002 21
Top States for ALLAWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 56 12202 0.001 10
Illinois 46 27145 0.000 4
California 42 47234 0.000 1
New York 30 53891 0.000 2
Alabama 27 10721 0.001 6
Top States for ALLAWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 56 12202 0.001 10
Alabama 27 10721 0.001 6
Oregon 18 21164 0.001 5
Montana 4 24009 0.000 4
Iowa 12 26792 0.000 4

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ALLAWAY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ALLAWAY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ALLAWAY in Washington than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ALLAWAY by picking someone at random in Washington than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ALLAWAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ALLAWAY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ALLAWAY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ALLAWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 276 75
Black/African American 78 21.2
Mixed Race 6 1.63
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ALLAWAY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ALLAWAY in historical publications

ALLAWAY. Alloway, a parish in Ayrshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ALLAWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALLAWAY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ALLAWAY

The following words are slight variants of ALLAWAY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.