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The CONAWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,878 4171 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 2,002 2978 0.004 40
Change since 1880 +5876 -1193 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 1 284796 0 0
United Kingdom 59 25646 0 1
Top States for CONAWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 716 3265 0.003 34
Ohio 709 1983 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 661 2335 0.005 54
Maryland 435 1434 0.008 82
California 392 7143 0.001 12
Top States for CONAWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 240 528 0.031 306
West Virginia 219 1239 0.012 121
Maryland 435 1434 0.008 82
Missouri 352 2134 0.006 63
Ohio 709 1983 0.006 62

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

Classification and Origin of CONAWAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CONAWAY 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 CONAWAY 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 CONAWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 134 1.7
Mixed Race 121 1.54
Native American/Alaskan 41 0.52
Asian/Pacific 29 0.37
White (Caucasian) 6,388 81.09
Black/African American 1,165 14.79

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

Meaning of CONAWAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to CONAWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CONAWAY.

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 CONAWAY

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