Calloway: name meaning, origin & popularity
- Meaning
- “from a pebbly place”
- Origin
- Scottish Gaelic
- Say it
- KAL-uh-way · 3 syllables
- Used for
- Boys (84% of all uses)
Transferred from the surname Calloway/Callaway, an Anglicized form related to Scottish place and clan names such as Galloway. The exact surname pathway varies, but the surname use is established.
How popular is Calloway?
Babies named Calloway in 2024109
2024 rank#1,849 boys
Peak year2024
Total US babies since 1880711
Calloway is rising: use over the last five years is 6.3× what it was a decade earlier.
Names like Calloway
Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.
Calloway questions
What does the name Calloway mean?
Calloway means "from a pebbly place". It comes from Scottish Gaelic. Transferred from the surname Calloway/Callaway, an Anglicized form related to Scottish place and clan names such as Galloway. The exact surname pathway varies, but the surname use is established.
Is Calloway a boy or girl name?
Calloway is mainly a boy's name in US records (84% of uses since 1880).
How popular is Calloway?
109 US babies were named Calloway in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.
How do you pronounce Calloway?
Calloway is usually pronounced KAL-uh-way.
Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.