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The CALAWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,491 17436 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 1,502 3838 0.003 30
Change since 1880 -11 -13598 -0.002 -24
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CALAWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 224 8409 0.001 11
Wisconsin 179 4543 0.003 33
Ohio 159 8632 0.001 14
California 118 20356 0.000 3
Arkansas 115 3048 0.004 43
Top States for CALAWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 115 3048 0.004 43
Wisconsin 179 4543 0.003 33
Oklahoma 84 5237 0.002 24
Ohio 159 8632 0.001 14
Utah 31 7224 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of CALAWAY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CALAWAY surname.

Ethnic distribution of CALAWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 146 9.79
White (Hispanic) 35 2.35
Mixed Race 22 1.48
Asian/Pacific 10 0.67
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.4
White (Caucasian) 1,272 85.31

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

CALAWAY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CALAWAY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CALAWAY.

Similar names to CALAWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CALAWAY.

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 CALAWAY

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