The ALLOWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,998	13871	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	361	12441	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+1637	-1430	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	113	12785	0.001	7
United Kingdom	232	15032	0.001	5

Top States for ALLOWAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Ohio	244	5756	0.002	21
Pennsylvania	211	7231	0.002	17
New Jersey	144	6836	0.002	17
California	142	17069	0.000	4
Texas	110	14387	0.001	5
Top States for ALLOWAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	55	4702	0.003	32
Kansas	79	4303	0.003	29
Delaware	21	6353	0.003	27
Alabama	97	4929	0.002	22
Ohio	244	5756	0.002	21

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ALLOWAY

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 ALLOWAY 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 ALLOWAY 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 ALLOWAY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	161	8.06
Native American/Alaskan	60	3
White (Hispanic)	45	2.25
Mixed Race	35	1.75
Asian/Pacific	7	0.35
White (Caucasian)	1,690	84.58

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

Similar names to ALLOWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALLOWAY.

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.