How common is the surname Holloway?

58,040 people in the United States had the surname Holloway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 5,320 Americans. It ranked 576th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Holloway?

Josh Holloway, American actor, followed by Grant Holloway.

Where is the surname Holloway most common?

Wikidata records people named Holloway in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Holloway?

Holloway is /ˈhɒləweɪ/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Holloway getting more or less common?

More common. 55,466 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 58,040 in 2010, up 4.6%.

The surname Holloway

An English place surname, carried by 58,040 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈhɒləweɪ/ 3 syllables Soundex H400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holloway is more common than 99.6% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English holh (“hollow”) + weġ (“way”); compare the doublet Holway.

Holloway is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 58,040 people named Holloway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 5,320 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 55,466.

#576

rank among US surnames

58,040

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+4.6%

change since 2000 (was #540)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#567	Cochran	59,350	5,202
#568	Morton	59,213	5,214
#569	Nash	58,714	5,258
#570	Wilkins	58,634	5,266
#571	Petersen	58,480	5,280
#572	Briggs	58,408	5,286
#573	Shah	58,287	5,297

Who is named Holloway

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

58% of people named Holloway identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 58%
Black (not Hispanic) 36%
Two or more races 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Holloways

15 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Josh Holloway
American actor, born 1969
Grant Holloway
American athlete, born 1997
Julian Holloway
British actor (1944–2025)
Stanley Holloway
British actor, singer and comedian (1890–1982)
Max Holloway
American mixed martial artist, born 1991
Sterling Holloway
American actor (1905–1992)
Loleatta Holloway
American singer (1946–2011)
Carol Holloway
Actress (1892–1979)
Natalee Holloway
American missing person (1986–2005)
James L. Holloway III
American admiral (1922-2019)
Edith Holloway
British chess player, 1868–1956
Nancy Holloway
American jazz musician (1932–2019)

Notable Holloways come mostly from the United States (11), the United Kingdom (2) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Holloway

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

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Holloway come from?: From Old English holh (“hollow”) + weġ (“way”); compare the doublet Holway.
How common is the surname Holloway?: 58,040 people in the United States had the surname Holloway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 5,320 Americans. It ranked 576th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Holloway?: In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Holloway identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Holloway?: Josh Holloway, American actor, followed by Grant Holloway.
Where is the surname Holloway most common?: Wikidata records people named Holloway in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Holloway?: Holloway is /ˈhɒləweɪ/, 3 syllables.
What type of surname is Holloway?: Holloway is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Holloway getting more or less common?: More common. 55,466 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 58,040 in 2010, up 4.6%.