The GALLOWAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	33,773	951	0.013	125
United States (1880 census)	5,140	1188	0.01	103
Change since 1880	+28633	+237	+0.003	+22
Other Countries
Australia	1,063	1553	0.007	65
United Kingdom	7,236	857	0.016	158

Top States for GALLOWAY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,789	950	0.013	134
North Carolina	2,678	426	0.033	333
South Carolina	2,189	261	0.055	546
California	2,003	1669	0.006	59
Florida	1,894	1109	0.012	119
Top States for GALLOWAY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	2,189	261	0.055	546
North Carolina	2,678	426	0.033	333
Alabama	1,173	666	0.026	264
Mississippi	741	610	0.026	260
Louisiana	955	686	0.021	214

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

Classification and Origin of GALLOWAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	605	1.79
Mixed Race	557	1.65
Native American/Alaskan	186	0.55
Asian/Pacific	135	0.4
White (Caucasian)	24,350	72.1
Black/African American	7,940	23.51

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

Similar names to GALLOWAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GALLOWAY.

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.