Dunaway
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Faye, US actress
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Dunaway is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 31K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
10,798 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Faye, US actress
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dunaway is found
(measured from records)Dunaway counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 10,798 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Dunaway | 11 |
| KR South Korea | — | — | — | Dunaway | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
10,798 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Faye Dunawayb. 1941USAmerican actress
- Jim Dunawayb. 1941USAmerican football player (1941-2018)
- Dennis Dunawayb. 1946USAmerican rock musician, bass guitarist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dunaway mean, and where does it come from?
- Faye, US actress Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Dunaway have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Dunaway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dunaway.
- Where is Dunaway most common?
- Dunaway is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 31 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dunaway?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,798 people named Dunaway in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dunawayThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dunaway”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.