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Conway

in Iowa

There are 375 people with the last name "Conway" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

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Conway 745
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  1. is 741st most common Sadler
  2. is 742nd most common Sargent
  3. is 743rd most common Simons
  4. is 744th most common Clarke
  5. is 745th most common Conway
  6. is 746th most common Noel
  7. is 747th most common Osborne
  8. is 748th most common Stokes
  9. is 749th most common Stuart

Similar Names and Nicknames

Conwell, Conwill, Conwi, Conwright, Comway, Conward, Conwa, Conwisar, Canway, Conwy

Most Common First Names for Conway

Michael, James, Mary, John, David, Patrick, Robert, Barbara, Cory, Daniel

Meaning & History

Irish: Anglicized form of various Gaelic names, such as Mac Conmidhe (see McNamee); Ó Connmhaigh or Mac Connmhaigh (‘descendant (or son) of Connmhach’, a personal name derived from connmach ‘headsmashing’), also Anglicized as Conoo; and Ó Conbhuide (‘descendant of Cú Bhuidhe’, a personal name composed of the elements cú ‘hound’ + buidhe ‘yellow’).

Welsh: habitational name from Conwy (formerly Conway), a fortified town on the coast of North Wales, itself named for the river on which it stands.

Scottish: habitational name from Conway in the parish of Beauly, recorded c.1215 as Coneway and in 1291 as Convathe. It probably gets its name from Gaelic coinmheadh ‘billet’, ‘free quarters’, being so named as the district in which the local lord's household troops were billeted.

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