Conway
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Conway is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Person from Conwy, North Wales; from Conway, Highland; or from Irish Gaelic surnames including Mac Conmidhe, Mac Connmhaigh, and O Conbhuide.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 7.5K
- GYGuyana1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 489 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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)
Person from Conwy, North Wales; from Conway, Highland; or from Irish Gaelic surnames including Mac Conmidhe, Mac Connmhaigh, and O Conbhuide.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Conway 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Conway | 14 |
| US United States | 44,320 | 1 in 7.5K | 44K | Conway | 489 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | listed | Conway | 264 |
| CA Canada | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 2 | Conway | 185 |
| AU Australia | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 1 | Conway | 177 |
| GY Guyana | 231 | 1 in 3.2K | 231 | — | 6 |
| MO Macao | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Conway | 9 |
| IS Iceland | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | — | — |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the welsh-surnames-morgan-1985 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Conway 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 Conway, Caernarvonshire; first attested John de Conweye 1268 Glast (Somerset); also an Irish anglicization of Celtic names
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, from the river/place Conwy; earliest citation 1406: William Conoway.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In English, A placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from Conwy, Caernarfonshire
as a nameWelsh Surnames
Río Colbie, Collby
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anne Conwayb. 1631GBEnglish philosopher
- Conway Tearleb. 1878USactor (1878-1938)
- Jack Conwayb. 1887USAmerican film director and actor (1887–1952)
- Tom Conwayb. 1904GBBritish actor (1904-1967)
- Tim Conwayb. 1933USAmerican actor and comedian (1933–2019)
- John Horton Conwayb. 1937GBEnglish mathematician (1937–2020)
- Lynn Conwayb. 1938USAmerican computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)
- Kevin Conwayb. 1942USAmerican actor (1942–2020)
- Gerry Conwayb. 1952USAmerican comic book writer (1952–2026)
- Kellyanne Conwayb. 1967USSenior Counselor to the President of the United States from 2017 to 2020
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 44K | #779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 43K | #719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 43K | #793 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 231 | #395 |
| GB United Kingdom | Welsh Surnames (Morgan & Morgan, 1985) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Conway mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Conwy, North Wales; from Conway, Highland; or from Irish Gaelic surnames including Mac Conmidhe, Mac Connmhaigh, and O Conbhuide. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Conway have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Conway in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled conway.
- Where is Conway most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Conway is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.2 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Conway?
- In the United States, the national register counted 44,320 people named Conway in 2010, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/conwayThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Conway”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.