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The HOLLOWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 55,466 540 0.021 206
United States (1880 census) 7,330 827 0.015 147
Change since 1880 +48136 +287 +0.006 +59
Other Countries
Australia 2,374 679 0.015 145
United Kingdom 11,537 516 0.025 251
Top States for HOLLOWAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 4,569 571 0.022 219
Georgia 4,327 223 0.053 529
California 3,281 1045 0.010 97
Florida 3,154 650 0.020 197
Tennessee 2,844 304 0.050 500
Top States for HOLLOWAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,906 210 0.067 670
Alabama 2,652 265 0.060 596
Georgia 4,327 223 0.053 529
Arkansas 1,384 243 0.052 518
Tennessee 2,844 304 0.050 500

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

Classification and Origin of HOLLOWAY

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 HOLLOWAY 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 HOLLOWAY 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 HOLLOWAY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 721 1.3
Native American/Alaskan 300 0.54
Asian/Pacific 172 0.31
White (Caucasian) 33,685 60.73
Black/African American 19,563 35.27
Mixed Race 1,021 1.84

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

Meaning of HOLLOWAY in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOLLOWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLLOWAY.

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 HOLLOWAY

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