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Conway

in Kentucky

There are 693 people with the last name "Conway" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Conway 763
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  1. is 759th most common Kendall
  2. is 760th most common Peyton
  3. is 761st most common Skinner
  4. is 762nd most common Kendrick
  5. is 763rd most common Conway
  6. is 764th most common Hornback
  7. is 765th most common Leonard
  8. is 766th most common Shannon
  9. is 767th most common Hatcher

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Conway

James, John, William, Michael, Barbara, Gary, Robert, Donald, Thomas, Charles

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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