Colway Surname
Approximately 58 people bear this surname
Colway Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 57 | 1:6,358,929 | 302,882 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 9 | 1:492,207 | 16,355 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wales | 3 | 1:522,805 | 14,314 |
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 41 | 1:1,224,846 | 68,768 |
Colway Demographics
Colway Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Religious Adherence
in Ireland
Colway Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Colway Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Colway has its highest incidence in The United States. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Colway? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,530,696th most commonly used last name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 125,647,343 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 81 percent of Colway reside; 81 percent reside in North America and 81 percent reside in Anglo-North America.
The surname Colway is most common in The United States, where it is held by 57 people, or 1 in 6,358,929. In The United States Colway is primarily concentrated in: New York, where 33 percent live, Florida, where 12 percent live and South Carolina, where 9 percent live. Not including The United States Colway occurs in one country. It also occurs in Australia, where 2 percent live.
Colway Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Colway has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname rose 139 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Colway Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those holding the last name is chiefly Catholic (100%) in Ireland.
In The United States those holding the Colway surname are 8.79% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 55.56% registered to vote for the political party.
Colway earn somewhat more than the average income. In United States they earn 14.22% more than the national average, earning $49,285 USD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Colway
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