Halliwell

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Person from Halliwell, the name of numerous English places meaning ‘holy well’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/haʎɪwɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Halliwell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 478K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
  • ESSpain1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

696 people, 2010

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 478K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Person from Halliwell, the name of numerous English places meaning ‘holy well’.

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)

Halliwell 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.

Where Halliwell is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6961 in 478K947Halliwell38
ES Spain381 in 1.3M38Halliwell6
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11—1
PL Poland81 in 4.8M5——
BE Belgium41 in 2.9M4—1

696 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Swedish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Hảlliwéll

44 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Halliwell is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • habitational name from a place near Manchester called Halliwell, from Old English hdlig ‘holy’ -H well(a) ‘weir, ‘spring’, or from any of the numerous other places named with these elements (see Hollowell).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, An area of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD705105).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Park, ballpark. Pocatello. ID

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

18001850190019502000James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, b. 1820Richard Halliwell, b. 1842Ernest Halliwell, b. 1864Leo Halliwell, b. 1891Kenneth Halliwell, b. 1926Leslie Halliwell, b. 1929Brian Halliwell, b. 1929Stephen Halliwell, b. 1953Geri Halliwell, b. 1972

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)

FormalDear Halliwell,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Halliwell
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020947#27,027
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000834#27,258
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010696#32,935
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—38#54,572
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—38#53,553
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202411#56,728
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#196,079
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20084#109,360
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#263,517
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Halliwell mean, and where does it come from?
Person from Halliwell, the name of numerous English places meaning ‘holy well’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Halliwell?
A machine transcription gives /haʎɪwɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Halliwell have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 696 people named Halliwell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled halliwell.
Where is Halliwell most common?
Halliwell is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 478 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Halliwell?
In the United States, the national register counted 696 people named Halliwell in 2010, about 1 in 478 thousand residents.

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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, “Halliwell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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