Calloway

Calloway is the 2,215th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,008 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,700.

By the numbers

People: 16,008
Rank: 2,215th
How common: 1 in 18,700
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

Variant of Callaway.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Calloway described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 53.2%
White, not Hispanic 37.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Calloway

Cab Calloway (1907–1994)American jazz singer
Vanessa Bell Calloway (born 1957)American actress
Jordan Calloway (born 1990)American actor and producer
Earl Calloway (born 1983)Bulgarian/American basketball player

People named Calloway with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Calloway

Also a first name

Calloway has been given to 857 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.