Holloway

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Holloway, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Lockwood
• Thornton
• Wolfe
• Lovelace
• Calloway
• Abbott
• Diamond
• Harrington
• Hathaway
• Collins
• Callahan
• Hawkins

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Holloway is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish surname17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom, Czechia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Холлоуэй, Голловей, Холоуеи, Холоуей, Холлоуэи

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Holloway is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, from OE holh + weg ‘dweller by a sunken road’; first attested Edward Hollaway 1674 HTSf

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, dweller by a hollow way, from OE holh + weg; first attested Richard de Holeweia 1130 P (D)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, habitational name from any of the numerous minor places so called, from Old English hoi ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’ + weg ‘way’, ‘path’. In Ireland, it has sometimes been Gaehcized as 6 hAilmhic (see Hulvey).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, numerous minor places so called, from OE holh hollow, sunken + weg way, path; cf. Holgate. Vars.: Holl(a)way, Holdaway, Holoway.

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

• In English, merous minor places so called, from OE holh hollow, sunken + weg way, path; cf. Holgate.

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Stanley Hollowayb. 1890GBBritish actor, singer and comedian (1890–1982)
• Elizabeth Holloway Marstonb. 1893USpsychologist (1893–1993)
• Sterling Hollowayb. 1905USAmerican actor (1905–1992)
• Julian Hollowayb. 1944GBBritish actor (1944–2025)
• Matt Hollowayb. 1953USAmerican writer
• Ian Hollowayb. 1963GBEnglish association football player and manager (born 1963)
• Josh Hollowayb. 1969USAmerican actor
• Sophie Dahlb. 1977GBnot in their usual nameEnglish author, cook, former model
• Max Hollowayb. 1991USAmerican mixed martial artist
• Grant Hollowayb. 1997USAmerican athlete

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Holloway mean, and where does it come from?

Person from Holloway, a place-name meaning “road in a hollow”. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How do you pronounce Holloway?

In English /hɒləweɪ/ (Wiktionary).

In which country does Holloway have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 58 thousand people named Holloway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holloway.

How common is the name Holloway?

In the United States, the national register counted 58,040 people named Holloway in 2010, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.

How common is Holloway compared with other names?

In the United States, Holloway is the 504th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.