Hathaway

17,689 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hathaway in the 2020 census, making it the 1,992nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,900.

By the numbers

People: 17,689
Rank: 1,992nd
How common: 1 in 16,900
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

A topographic surname for someone who lived by a path across a heath, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land”) + weġ (“way”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.4%
Black, not Hispanic 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hathaway

Henry Hathaway (1898–1985)American film director and producer
Anne Hathaway (1556–1623)wife of William Shakespeare
Donny Hathaway (1945–1979)American singer-songwriter and musician
Noah Hathaway (born 1971)American actor
Lalah Hathaway (born 1968)American singer
William Hathaway (1924–2013)American politician
Jack Hathaway (born 1982)Naval aviator and NASA astronaut

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

Surnames like Hathaway

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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.