Holloway

56,001 people in the United States were counted with the surname Holloway in the 2020 census, making it the 585th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,337.

By the numbers

People: 56,001
Rank: 585th
How common: 1 in 5,337
Per 100,000: 18.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English holh (“hollow”) + weġ (“way”); compare the doublet.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 55.7%
Black, not Hispanic 35.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Holloway

Josh Holloway (born 1969)American actor
Grant Holloway (born 1997)American athlete
Julian Holloway (1944–2025)British actor
Ian Holloway (born 1963)English association football player and manager
Stanley Holloway (1890–1982)British actor, singer and comedian
Max Holloway (born 1991)American mixed martial artist
Sterling Holloway (1905–1992)American actor
Elizabeth Holloway Marston (1893–1993)psychologist

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

Surnames like Holloway

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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.