How common is the surname Galloway?

34,909 people in the United States had the surname Galloway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,844 Americans. It ranked 1,002nd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Galloway?

Langston Galloway, American basketball player (born 1991), followed by Don Galloway.

Where is the surname Galloway most common?

Wikidata records people named Galloway in the United States and Australia.

How do you pronounce Galloway?

Galloway is /ˈɡaləwe/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Galloway getting more or less common?

More common. 33,773 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 34,909 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Galloway

A surname, carried by 34,909 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈɡaləwe/ 3 syllables Soundex G400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Galloway is more common than 99.4% of them.

Origin

From Scottish Gaelic (eadar na) Gall-Ghàidhealaibh (literally “(among the) foreign Gaels”), a term used for Gaelic-speaking Norse settlers.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 34,909 people named Galloway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 8,844 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 33,773.

#1,002

rank among US surnames

34,909

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #951)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#993	Rowland	35,121	8,791
#994	Whitney	35,118	8,792
#995	Duke	35,053	8,808
#996	Odom	35,020	8,816
#997	Daugherty	34,987	8,825
#998	Travis	34,985	8,825
#999	Tang	34,961	8,831

Who is named Galloway

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

70% of people named Galloway identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 70%
Black (not Hispanic) 24%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Galloways

11 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Langston Galloway
American basketball player (born 1991)
Don Galloway
American actor (1937-2009)
Jackie Galloway
American taekwondo practitioner, born 1995
Robert Galloway
American tennis player (born 1992)
Jeff Galloway
American distance runner, 1945–2026
Joseph Galloway
American politician, 1731–1803
Scott Galloway
Australian footballer, born 1995
Joseph L. Galloway
American newspaper correspondent and columnist (1941-2021)
Nicole Galloway
American accountant and politician (born 1982)
Beverly Thomas Galloway
American mycologist and phytopathologist (1863-1938)
David Galloway
American novelist, journalist and curator, 1937–2019

Notable Galloways come mostly from the United States (10) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Galloway

Galloway has the Soundex code G400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G400.

Questions

Where does the surname Galloway come from?: From Scottish Gaelic (eadar na) Gall-Ghàidhealaibh (literally “(among the) foreign Gaels”), a term used for Gaelic-speaking Norse settlers.
How common is the surname Galloway?: 34,909 people in the United States had the surname Galloway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,844 Americans. It ranked 1,002nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Galloway?: In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Galloway identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Galloway?: Langston Galloway, American basketball player (born 1991), followed by Don Galloway.
Where is the surname Galloway most common?: Wikidata records people named Galloway in the United States and Australia.
How do you pronounce Galloway?: Galloway is /ˈɡaləwe/, 3 syllables.
Is the surname Galloway getting more or less common?: More common. 33,773 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 34,909 in 2010, up 3.4%.