Halloway Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

One surname, two spellings: Halloway and Holloway. Name scholars give the meaning as “Dweller by a sunken road”.

A variant of Holloway

Spelled with “a” instead of “o”, Halloway shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Hollway and Holleway.

Halloway by the numbers

1,139 Americans were listed as Halloway in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

Halloway coat of arms

There is no single Halloway family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

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