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Conway

in the US

There are 36,481 people with the last name "Conway" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Conway 697
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  1. is 693rd most common Solis
  2. is 694th most common Solomon
  3. is 695th most common Sloan
  4. is 696th most common Meadows
  5. is 697th most common Conway
  6. is 698th most common Herman
  7. is 699th most common Winters
  8. is 700th most common Mcintyre
  9. is 701st most common Hull

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Conway

John, James, Michael, Robert, William, Thomas, Mary, David, Richard, Joseph

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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