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    The surname Halloway

    A surname, carried by 1,139 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex H400

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Halloway is more common than 86.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,139 people named Halloway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 271,067 Americans. That is up 8.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,046.

    #22,559
    rank among US surnames
    1,139
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.9%
    change since 2000 (was #22,854)

    Who is named Halloway

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

    56% of people named Halloway identified as white (not Hispanic), 37% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 56%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 37%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Halloway

    Halloway has the Soundex code H400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Halloway?
    1,139 people in the United States had the surname Halloway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 271,067 Americans. It ranked 22,559th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Halloway?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Halloway identified as white (not Hispanic), and 37% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Halloway getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,046 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,139 in 2010, up 8.9%.