Meaning & origin
What it means
Holloway goes back to Old English holh, meaning “hollow.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Holloway through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 26
- 20 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 111 as a first name in 2020; 56,001 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Holloway’s family of names
In English usage, Holloway as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with HOLWAY.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love Holloway, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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“bear”
>99% boys
Fordham
“homestead”
>99% boys
Hyland
“high”
71% boys · 29% girls
Hendon
“high” · “hill”
>99% boys
Darlington
“the settlement of Dēornōþ's people”
>99% boys
Barrow
“grove”
>99% boys
Bellingham
“bell”
>99% boys
Roxton
“rook” · “hill”
>99% boys