Holloway

Holloway is a habitational surname, meaning if this is a last name on your family tree, your ancestors once lived in an English town by the name. As a first name, it's relatively undiscovered — Holloway charted for the first time in 2020 and appeared again in 2021. It would work on a child of either sex, although the intuitive Holly nickname might keep the distribution skewed toward the feminine.

In the UK, this name might be associated with the now closed London based prison or with the university, Royal Holloway.

Pronounced HAH-luh-way.

As of October 2026, Holloway ranked #12825 in US births in 2021 SSA, peaked at #3484 in 1914.