The CONWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	43,395	719	0.016	161
United States (1880 census)	13,640	425	0.027	273
Change since 1880	+29755	-294	-0.011	-112
Other Countries
Australia	2,779	568	0.017	170
United Kingdom	13,444	437	0.029	293

Top States for CONWAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,280	993	0.010	97
New York	3,091	521	0.016	163
Pennsylvania	2,906	386	0.024	237
Florida	2,302	869	0.014	144
Texas	2,288	1105	0.011	110
Top States for CONWAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	293	407	0.037	374
Massachusetts	2,174	348	0.034	342
New Hampshire	397	445	0.032	321
Missouri	1,586	394	0.028	283
Rhode Island	251	526	0.024	239

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

Classification and Origin of CONWAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	703	1.62
Mixed Race	647	1.49
Native American/Alaskan	282	0.65
Asian/Pacific	187	0.43
White (Caucasian)	36,300	83.65
Black/African American	5,277	12.16

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

Meaning of CONWAY in historical publications

(origin: Br. and Celtic. Local) From a river of that name in Wales, which issues from a lake in Merionethshire, and flows through a fertile vale of the same name, and enters the Irish Sea, at Aberconway; from Con, head, chief, and wy, a river.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

CONWAY.* A pedigree of the Irish Conways derives them fi'om the Conwaj's of Worcestershire, whose lineage was deduced from Sir William Conais, High Constable of England at the time of the Conqueror. D'Alton.

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 CONWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CONWAY.

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.