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    The surname Calloway

    A surname, carried by 16,689 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C400

    Calloway: #2,175 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Calloway #2,175, 16,689 people Calloway: #2,175 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Calloway #2,175, 16,689 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Calloway is more common than 98.7% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Callaway.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 16,689 people named Calloway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 18,500 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 15,784.

    #2,175
    rank among US surnames
    16,689
    people in 2010
    5.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.7%
    change since 2000 (was #2,109)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,166Almeida16,76018,422
    #2,167Hawthorne16,75818,424
    #2,168Pendleton16,75118,431
    #2,169Naylor16,74518,438
    #2,170Gerber16,73218,452
    #2,171Schrader16,72718,458
    #2,172Burnette16,71718,469

    Who is named Calloway

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    55% of people named Calloway identified as Black (not Hispanic), 39% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 55%
    • White (not Hispanic) 39%
    • Two or more races 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Famous Calloways

    4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Cab Calloway
      American jazz singer (1907–1994)
    • Vanessa Bell Calloway
      American actress, born 1957
    • Jordan Calloway
      American actor and producer, born 1990
    • Blanche Calloway
      American singer, bandleader and composer, 1902–1978

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Calloway

    Calloway has the Soundex code C400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C400.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Calloway come from?
    Variant of Callaway.
    How common is the surname Calloway?
    16,689 people in the United States had the surname Calloway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 18,500 Americans. It ranked 2,175th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Calloway?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Calloway identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 39% as white (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Calloway?
    Cab Calloway, American jazz singer (1907–1994), followed by Vanessa Bell Calloway.
    Where is the surname Calloway most common?
    Wikidata records people named Calloway in the United States.
    Is the surname Calloway getting more or less common?
    More common. 15,784 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 16,689 in 2010, up 5.7%.