Galloway

33,610 people in the United States were counted with the surname Galloway in the 2020 census, making it the 1,020th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,893.

By the numbers

People: 33,610
Rank: 1,020th
How common: 1 in 8,893
Per 100,000: 11.2

Where the name comes from

From Scottish Gaelic (eadar na) Gall-Ghàidhealaibh, a term used for Gaelic-speaking Norse settlers.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.1%
Black, not Hispanic 23.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Galloway

George Galloway (born 1954)British politician, broadcaster, and writer
Brendan Galloway (born 1996)English association football player
Langston Galloway (born 1991)American basketball player
Don Galloway (1937–2009)American actor
Robert Galloway (born 1992)American tennis player
Jackie Galloway (born 1995)American taekwondo practitioner

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

Surnames like Galloway

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.